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How People Actually Change: An Interview with George & Linda Pransky

Updated: Apr 28

We’re excited to feature an episode of What is a Good Life?—a thoughtful podcast hosted by Mark McCartney. In this episode, Mark sits down with George and Linda Pransky for a wide-ranging conversation about personal change, the role of insight, and how we can move from reacting to life to truly living it.

The Role of Insight in Change

George and Linda explore the powerful idea that people don’t change through effort or by trying to control their thoughts. Lasting change comes through insight—through seeing something new, deeply and personally. The kind of change that sticks doesn’t come from willpower or trying harder. It comes from a quiet mind, a reflective state, and moments of realization that shift our understanding.

This idea is central to the work George and Linda have done over the last 50 years, helping individuals, couples, and professionals see how the human mind really works. When you see how experience is created, your relationship to your own thinking—and to life—naturally begins to shift.

Making Space for Wisdom

One of the most striking moments in the interview is when George talks about what happens when we have faith in life. That simple trust, he says, creates the space for wisdom to emerge—the wisdom we need to navigate life’s challenges, big and small. It’s not about searching or striving, but about becoming receptive to the answers that arise when our mind is at ease.

A Conversation Full of Clarity and Compassion

This conversation covers a lot of ground, from gratitude and quiet to accountability and patience. George and Linda share stories, reflections, and moments of vulnerability that highlight what it means to live from a deeper understanding.

Whether you’re new to the Three Principles or you’ve been exploring this understanding for years, this episode is a wonderful invitation to reflect on your own life and how change has shown up for you.




"In this episode, George and Linda share their understandings around how people really change, through realizations rather than intellect and willpower. We discuss the importance of gratitude, patience, quiet, accountability, and faith in further realisations occurring. While we also explore how our thinking is often broken and how they both have moved from reacting to life to living life.


This whole conversation is incredibly enlightening. George and Linda have so much wisdom to share, and in highlighting where our problems reside and sharing several anecdotes and insights, the whole conversation serves as an invitation to be drawn into your life rather than simply reacting to it."


- Mark McCartney


We loved this quote from George in the interview where he talks about simply having faith in life makes the space for wisdom to come through in the form of the answers you seek.


Faith in Life Quote George Pransky


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Pransky & Associates

In 1976, George and Linda Pransky stumbled on a new way of helping people that was radically different from the traditional counseling methods they had been using in their work. The new principles they were learning had a huge impact on their personal lives, their relationship, and the way they worked with their clients. They began to teach these principles to their clients and became pioneers in a new field of psychology that profoundly changed people in a short amount of time.

Young George Pransky & Linda Pransky

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