ATG 64: Go with your head or trust your gut? Your body knows the answer. My mind-blowing conversation with Annie Murphy Paul

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Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Your brain is powerful, but it’s limited. Sometimes it’s able to tell you exactly what you feel, how you can respond to a challenge, or how you can create ideas. Other times, it can’t. Enter Annie Murphy Paul, an acclaimed science writer whose book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain is a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021.

She believes that we’re using our heads too much and missing the cues the rest of our bodies are giving us to help us navigate everyday life. From being able to focus more, to expressing more creativity, to managing our emotions, your body does a remarkable job of communicating what you need to accomplish all those things and more. The problem is that most of the time, we’re too busy listening to our head. Tune in to our conversation to discover how you can tap into the full potential of your mind and the “extra-neural” resources beyond it.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the All It Takes as a Gold Podcast, the best place in the entire
0:07.6	world, including all of Canada to learn how to build new thoughts, new actions, and new
0:12.7	results.
0:14.0	I'm your host John Akef and today I'm joined by Annie Murphy Paul.
0:28.4	Who's that?
0:29.4	I'm so glad you asked.
0:32.0	Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York
0:35.5	Times magazine, Scientific American, and the best American science writing among many
0:41.6	other publications.
0:42.9	Her latest book is The Extended Mind, The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, published
0:47.6	in June of 2021.
0:49.6	It has been selected as an Amazon editor's pick for best nonfiction and as an editor's
0:55.2	choice by the New York Times book review.
0:57.8	She is currently a learning sciences exchange fellow at New America.
1:03.0	And I'm just going to tell you, her book is fantastic, oh it's so good.
1:08.8	It's so good.
1:09.8	There are so many things when I read it that I immediately put into action in my own
1:13.6	life and she's brilliant and I can't wait for you to hear this interview.
1:18.0	But first, a quick message about the sponsor of today's episode.
1:23.1	Today's sponsor is me.
1:25.0	I've been really surprised at how many people who listen to this podcast have reached out
1:28.9	to me about having me speak at their events.
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