233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Link to preorder How Minds Change: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome Our guest in this episode is A.J. Jacobs, the the four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks A Thousand, It’s All Relative, and The Know It All. His new book, The Puzzler, is a fun, weird, refreshingly scientific book all about the human brain's fascination with puzzles. Seriously, there’s all sorts of explorations in the book about neural pathways, behavioral routines, how we learn, what gets us into loops, and - this is true - a few attempts to solve the puzzle of our very existence.Show Notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart Twitter: www.twitter.com/notsmartblog Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	It's almost here June 21st, 2020 to how minds change.
0:06.4	My new book will be available everywhere and in every format, including as an audio book
0:12.7	read by me.
0:14.0	The person saying these words out loud right now.
0:17.2	If you plan on getting it, pre-ordering really helps.
0:20.4	It helps with all the charts and the algorithms and so on.
0:23.4	It tells bookstores what to get.
0:25.8	It puts it up there in the front page of all sorts of stuff.
0:28.7	So if you can pre-order it, that would be great.
0:30.8	I'll greatly appreciate it.
0:31.8	Plus, there'll be some pre-order bonuses, including a ticket to a live Q&A, an interview with
0:36.6	me, a link to a roundtable discussion with some of the persuasion experts featured in
0:41.5	the book, and a few other things.
0:43.5	There's a link in the show notes to get more information and to pre-order.
0:48.3	So June 21st, 2020 to how minds change.
0:53.5	I can't wait for you to read this or listen to it.
0:56.2	Okay.
0:57.2	You're not so smart.
0:58.2	Podcast.
0:59.2	Here we go.
1:01.2	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
1:26.3	You spent time with an expert on dirty, medieval riddles written by monks.
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