Claude Steele
Author, Churn
Claude M. Steele is an American social psychologist and the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Stanford University. The author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He lives in California.
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April 29, 2026
Ceilings, Frames, & Churn: Breaking Invisible Barriers in Your Work and Relationships
This week, we explore the invisible boundaries that shape our work, our relationships, and our own sense of what's possible. We open with the story of the four-minute mile: for nine years, no one could break it—until Roger Bannister did, and the floodgates opened. What changed? Not the runners’ bodies, but their sense of possibility. This episode is about those frames we rarely question—the ones that quietly dictate how high we reach and what doors we see as closed. We’re joined by Tom Rath, ...
Guests: Claude Steele , Tom Rath