Motivation is not a straight line between what we want and what we do, it’s a triangle. And the third, overlooked leg is belief

I’m a big believer in the power of mindset. My journey as an entrepreneur has, frankly, demanded it. Building a business from scratch forces you into deeper work on self-inquiry and meta-cognition—that recursive question of Why do I think the way I think about this? It has pushed me to examine my assumptions, sit with discomfort, and deliberately fortify my inner life in ways I never anticipated when I started out.

So when I sat down with Nir Eyal, author of the new New York Times bestselling book Beyond Belief...