David Eagleman

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Minnie questions neuroscientist and author, David Eagleman. David shares how a childhood fall influenced his life's work, the impact his teachers had on him outside the classroom (including the legendary Francis Crick), and why a chain restaurant is the secret to his writing success.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:08.0	And my grandfather was born in 1883.
0:10.0	I had a proper Victorian for a grandfather.
0:13.0	So my grandfather was born 1879, it turns out.
0:16.0	What?
0:17.0	Yeah, he was 50 years old when he had my father,
0:20.0	and my father was getting close to 50 when
0:22.0	he had me.
0:23.0	That's bananas.
0:24.0	It was really interesting being taught to grow tomatoes by a 97-year-old grandpa.
0:28.4	Yeah.
0:29.4	And my mother was always making jokes about...
0:31.4	Are you sure girls are allowed to grow tomatoes?
0:40.5	Hello, I'm Mini Driver.
0:43.3	Welcome to Mini Questions Season 2.
0:46.1	I've always loved Proust's Questionette.
0:51.4	It was originally an 19th century parlour game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.
0:56.0	It's just the scientific method, really.
0:58.9	In asking different people the same set of questions,
1:01.7	you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal.
1:05.5	I love this discipline.
1:07.7	And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater
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