86. Ayelet Waldman (Author) – Yourself, Only Better
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.0 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:11.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey there, I'm Jason Gottz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:29.5 | Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most |
| 0:35.0 | creative thinkers on the planet. |
| 0:36.6 | On the podcast, we revisit these ideas in new ways. |
| 0:39.3 | Our producers surprised me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Things Archives, |
| 0:44.3 | ideas that we didn't necessarily come here expecting to discuss. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm very happy to be here today with Ayelet Waldman. |
| 0:51.3 | She's a novelist and an essayist and a former federal public defender who taught at Loyola and UC Berkeley Schools of Law. |
| 0:58.9 | Her latest book, A Really Good Day, is an honest account of her month-long experience microdosing on LSD after a ton of research into the practice and potential psychological benefits of taking subperceptual doses |
| 1:13.1 | of the chemical. Spoiler, overall, it helped her. The book also digs into the history |
| 1:18.4 | and ramifications of the criminalization of psychoactive drugs. Welcome to think again, I |
| 1:23.4 | Ellen. |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks so much for having me on the show. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, no, I'm so glad you could make it. |
| 1:28.3 | So I found your book really, really interesting, and I guess I think for the audience, |
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