How to Stop Reliving the Past You Cannot Change | Dr. Ankit Agarwal | EP#2

Dr. Ankit Agarwal is the Founder of Breaking Mental Models. In this conversation, he walks Asher through the Hindsight Trap, the Johari Window, and the bowl of water analogy he uses to teach how human behavior actually changes.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT DR. ANKIT AGARWALFounder of Breaking Mental Models. Senior educator at the University of Adelaide. Two master's degrees, a PhD in organizational behavior, and a Cisco certification. Teaches up to 1,000 students a year across more than 17 countries. Gives every student his personal phone number.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODEThe Hindsight Trap and why it works like quicksandThe Johari Window and the four quadrants of self-awarenessThe bowl of water and the bowl of ice analogy for behavior changeWhy "common sense" is contextual, not universalThe question that closed the conversation: Why change?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━REFERENCESJohari Window — Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham (1955)Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode InstrumentKurt Lewin's Change Model — unfreeze, change, refreezeBlaise Pascal — "the grass is greener on the other side of the Pyrenees"━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH DR. ANKIT AGARWALWebsite: breakingmentalmodels.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-ankit-agarwal-phd-a9ba1344━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━MEMOIRS TO MILLIONSWe help veterans, immigrants, and entrepreneurs turn their life stories into published books that build authority and income.Website: memoirstomillions.com Newsletter: m2mweeklyintel.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/asher-wright-310731227*Recorded on April 3rd, 2026*The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice.