As it goes, friends, welcome to another episode of The Genius Life.

I'm your host, Max Lugovir, a filmmaker,

health and science journalist in the author of The New York Times' best-selling book, Genius Foods.

In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to my friend, Scott Barry

Kaufman, a psychologist at Columbia University.

Dr. Kaufman writes a weekly column called Beautiful Minds for Scientific American magazine

and hosts the Psychology Podcast, which is received over 7 million downloads.

Business Insider called him one of the 50 groundbreaking scientists who are changing the way

we see the world.

He focuses on personal growth and development, cognitive and humanistic psychology, creativity,

and intelligence.

So, over the next hour, you're going to discover how to remove the blocks that impede your

personal growth, why you should love the hater and embrace criticism, how to distinguish

healthy versus unhealthy thought patterns, what improv comedy classes can teach you about

living your best life, how Dr. Kaufman measures and believes we can nurture intelligence,

and so much more.

This is going to be an incredible journey for sure, but before we get into it, I want

to talk to you guys about the value of medicinal mushrooms.

Mushrooms are full of antioxidants, prebiotic fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals,

and those are just the culinary mushrooms that we use in our salads and to throw on

the barbecue every summer.

But there's another category of mushrooms now being considered for their medicinal value,

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