8. Maria Konnikova (Author) – Mindset/Creativity/Suburban B-Boyz
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.3 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.2 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.9 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:12.9 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.8 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:19.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey there, I'm Jason Gats and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Big Think is an online forum for the world's most interesting thinkers and doers to share their ideas on video. |
| 0:33.2 | Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them. |
| 0:36.5 | On the Think Again podcast, we surprise our guests and me, your host, with unexpected clips |
| 0:41.2 | from these bottomless archives, and then we chat about them. |
| 0:45.9 | Today I'm joined by Maria Konnikova, an author whose previous book, Mastermind, taught readers |
| 0:51.0 | how to think like Sherlock Holmes, and author of The Confidence Game coming up from |
| 0:55.4 | Viking Press in January 2016. How's it going, Maria? Doing well. How are you, Jason? I'm great. |
| 1:01.4 | So glad to have you on the show. I am sure that you're tired of answering Sherlock Holmes questions, |
| 1:06.4 | but I'm going to ask you one anyway. If we could resurrect Sherlock Holmes and make him do this |
| 1:10.0 | podcast, what do you think he would do Sherlock Holmes and make him do this podcast, |
| 1:16.4 | what do you think he would do? After you showed him any one segment, he would smoke a pipe and try to think about it. And he would basically take up a half an hour of your time for you to get one |
| 1:21.4 | minute of recording. I am so glad to have you here today instead of Sherlock Holmes, Maria. |
| 1:26.9 | So let's see what the producers have dug up |
| 1:29.1 | for us. What's first, Aaron? This clip is from Kelly McGonigal, and she's talking about how stress |
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