207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

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🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart. One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episodeShow Notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.comPatreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:41.2	past episodes, at Stitcher's SoundCloud, iTunes, Omni's Spotify, or you are not so smart.com.
0:49.1	I've got lots of announcements coming up, first of all, there's the book, How Minds Change,
0:54.3	coming up later on in the year.
0:56.3	Also live shows are coming back, we're going to take the show on the road.
1:01.1	There's a place in New York City called caveat, and I'm partnering with them to bring you
1:06.0	lots and lots of live shows there at their venue soon.
1:09.9	In fact, August, I'm planning on having the first new live show in August of 2021.
1:15.5	I'm also making a documentary series for Himalaya about the history of the idea and the
1:23.0	etymology of the word genius, which includes creative genius intelligence and all sorts of
1:27.9	other things.
1:28.9	Look for that coming up in July.
1:31.3	You may have seen this on Twitter, Joe Hanson of It's OK to Be Smart, and I have been
1:36.2	working all COVID-long with the great James Burke to write a new connection series called
1:44.1	The Knowledge Web, and it's ready to go, and we are just looking for a good home for
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