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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

8. Maria Konnikova (Author) – Mindset/Creativity/Suburban B-Boyz

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Can "positive thinking" keep you physically and mentally young? Do schools kill creativity? Should white boys ever rap or breakdance? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, host Jason Gots is joined by Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Interview clips from Kelly McGonigal, Lawrence Krauss, and Tavis Smiley launch a discussion of 21st century education, racial identity, and the powers and limits of positive thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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