How to instantly improve your workplace (without changing jobs)

April 2, 2026 — 2:00pm

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Two people can sit in the same office, do the same work and report to the same boss, yet still have entirely different views of their job. One might feel trapped in a toxic workplace while the other feels energised by it. The difference? It’s not to do with their work, it’s what they believe about it.

You’ve no doubt built mental images up of everyone that you work with. One person might be lazy, the other super smart, and there’s always a colleague that we tend to put in the ‘difficult’ basket. We spend so much time thinking about how to change other people’s behaviour, but what if the solution to improving our workplaces started with challenging our own invisible thinking?

That’s what Nir Eyal, the author of the new book Beyond Belief........

© The Sydney Morning Herald