From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

I'm Pete Barara.

Even if we do decide to hold ourselves up and keep the same job forever,

change will get all of us because that's just definitionally true

if we are living on this planet, right?

And so whether we like it or not, we all have to reckon with the fact

that change will happen in our lives.

That's Maya Shankar.

She's a cognitive scientist and the creator, executive producer,

and host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans,

which won Apple's 2021 Best Show of the Year.

Shankar's study of cognitive science took her to Oxford on a road scholarship

and then onto the White House, where she was senior advisor in the Obama administration.

There she founded and served as chair of the White House Behavioral Science Team.

Her team developed ways to apply cognitive science to complex policy issues.

Shankar joins the show to discuss how our brains work, how we make decisions,

relate to one another's beliefs, and handle big changes in our lives.

That's coming up. Stay tuned.

Now let's get to your questions.

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