Leonard Mlodinow and Rosamund Urwin on the Power of Elastic Thinking

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🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode we were joined by Leonard Mlodinow, the theoretical physicist, Star Trek screenwriter and author of Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change in conversation with Sunday Times journalist Rosamund Urwin. In a wide-ranging discussion, they talked about the neuroscience of change, and how we can train our brains to be more comfortable with our rapidly changing world. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	Hello and welcome to this week's Intelligence Squared podcast with me Farah Gissat.
1:04.0	This week we're talking about creativity and how to make your brain more flexible.
1:08.0	Daniel produced this episode. Daniel, what's it about?
1:11.0	So today in the studio we had Rosamin
1:13.2	Owen, the journalist, in conversation with Leonard
1:16.2	Moladinov. Leonard is an American physicist and also a writer on the TV
1:21.3	series Star Trek. He has a new book out called
1:23.6	Alastic, flexible thinking in a constantly changing world, and it's all about
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