#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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0:00.0	I'm listening to when the boiling of the rice, I'm smelling the olive oil on the saucepan,
0:07.6	and I'm picking up the dangerous sound, got a lower the heat. That's only from a great deal of
0:13.1	experience and paying attention to the smell and the sound of those cues, and that isn't in the
0:19.9	recipe. The abstraction you get, either in a diagram or verbal instructions, isn't going to enable
0:27.5	you to be a great cook. You can make satisfactory things, and you need to know, not just adding so,
0:36.2	you need to know when to throw in the trash and start all over again.
0:46.5	Welcome to the Knowledge Project podcast, I'm your host Shane Garrish. The goal of this show is to
1:01.2	master the best what other people have already figured out. To do that, I sit down with people
1:05.7	at the top of their game to uncover the useful lessons you can learn and apply in life and business.
1:11.3	If you're listening to this, you're missing out. If you'd like special member only episodes,
1:16.8	access before anyone else, hand edited transcripts, and other member only content, you can join at
1:23.2	fs.blog slash membership. Check out the show notes for a link. Today, I'm speaking with Barbara Diversky.
1:31.9	Barbara is a professor of psychology at both Stanford and Columbia. Barbara has published more
1:36.9	than 200 scholarly articles about memory, spatial thinking, design, and creativity. She's the author
1:43.6	of Mind in Motion, How Action Shapes Thought. If you're interested in cognitive psychology,
1:50.2	how the brain works, the way that language shapes thought and thought shapes language, you're
1:55.3	in for a real treat with this episode. We cover her nine laws of cognition, why movement, not
2:01.2	language is the foundation to thought, how language changes how we think, gestures, and the
2:07.5	relationship to language, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the importance of
2:13.9	perspective taking. It's time to listen and learn.
2:22.9	The knowledge project is sponsored by Medalab. For a decade, Medalab has helped some of the world's
2:28.2	top companies and entrepreneurs build products that millions of people use every day. You probably
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