Elastic Thinking (w/ Leonard Mlodinow), How People Judge You, and Your Time Perspective

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn how you can change your thinking to keep up with today’s fast-paced world, with some help from author Leonard Mlodinow. Plus: learn about the two criteria people use to judge you, and how you can measure your relationship with time.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

According to a Harvard Psychologist, People Judge You Based on Two Criteria — https://curiosity.im/2DhYT8B
This Psychology Quiz Will Explain Your Relationship With Time — https://curiosity.im/2Dgc2ip

Resources and publications from Leonard Mlodinow:

Follow @lmlodinow on Twitter — https://twitter.com/lmlodinow
“Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change” — https://amazon.com
Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow review via The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/18/elastic-flexible-thinking-leonard-mlodinow
Leonard’s Wikipedia page — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Mlodinow
“Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior” — https://amazon.com
“The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives” — https://amazon.com
“The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey From Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos” — https://amazon.com
“The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow — https://amazon.com

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn how you can change your thinking to keep up with today's fast-paced world
0:11.0	with some help from a special guest author Leonard Molodnau.
0:14.6	You'll also learn about the two criteria people use to judge you and how you can measure your
0:18.9	relationship with time.
0:20.3	Let's set us for some curiosity.
0:22.1	Are you worried the peace of the modern world is going to leave you behind?
0:25.0	Do you ever feel like if you receive one more email your head might explode?
0:29.0	One man has some suggestions for survival.
0:32.0	Leonard Muladnau is a theoretical physicist, screenwriter, and best-selling author,
0:37.0	and he wrote a book called Elastic,
0:39.0	unlocking your brain's ability to embrace change.
0:42.0	I asked him how we can adapt to a world where technology
0:45.4	is changing faster than we're sometimes able to keep up with. And here's what he
0:49.2	told me. There's certain ways of thinking that are more appropriate when times are not a change in,
0:54.3	when you are facing issues and problems that you've encountered before.
0:59.0	And that's really logical analytical thinking where you reason from A to B to C, etc, and you follow the rules of logic.
1:07.3	But that requires that problem be pre-analyze, they have been set up before your goals determine the way you're approaching at the
1:14.6	framework at which you think.
1:16.9	And when you have all that set up, then that kind of a rational thought works really
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