Maya Shankar

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Cognitive scientist and host of the podcast 'A Slight Change of Plans' Maya Shankar joins Jameela this week to discuss what we attach to our identity, how there is a competitive advantage to being great listeners, what could be the antidote to loneliness and we find out the three types of empathy and discover maybe Jameela does have empathy after all. Check out Maya's podcast - A Slight Change of Plans - wherever you listen - and look out for her TED Talk (available from July 25th, 2023):Who are you, and how do you transform in the face of change? Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar shares three questions you can ask to find out who you are when the world feels like it’s shifting under your feet. First: “How does this change change what you’re capable of?” Next, “How might this change change what you value?” And third: “How might this change change how you define yourself?”Shankar shares stories — and the science behind change — of people who stepped out of their comfort zones and rigid mindsets and found themselves changed for the better. Maybe through their experiences, and Shankar’s own story as well, a new, lesser traveled yet more rewarding and expansive path rich with possibility awaits. Follow Maya on Instagram @drmayashankar You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and Twitter @Jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jameela Jamell, a podcast against shame.
0:04.6	Hope you're well and hope you enjoy today's chat. I think it's exactly the kind of conversation
0:09.5	we need at this sort of halfway point in the year where we're sort of losing hope,
0:13.2	all the hope that we had in January starting to fade away and we need that next booster energy
0:17.9	to get us through to the end of the year, which is coming so much sooner than I expected.
0:23.0	I can't handle how fast every year goes by. Anyway, her name is Maya Shankar and she is a cognitive
0:28.5	scientist who is the creator, executive producer and host of a podcast called A Slight Change of
0:33.4	Plans, which is such a good podcast, by the way. And we discuss what being a cognitive psychologist
0:39.6	actually means. I get to know Maya at her fascinating life story. We discuss the science of identity
0:44.8	and identity paralysis and what we attach self-identity to. We talk about how to find identity
0:50.9	stability. We discuss increasing the question slash statement ratio and how there is a competitive
0:56.4	advantage to listening rather than always speaking. We discuss the three types of empathy there
1:02.0	are and in this episode, Maya and I argue about whether or not I actually have any empathy because
1:07.0	sometimes I can be very cold in English and I think I'm an asshole, but she seems to disagree
1:13.4	and you can find out how that chat goes in this conversation. And we talk about what loneliness
1:18.8	does to our minds and the acts of service are an antidote to loneliness. I especially love
1:23.6	any chats about loneliness because I think it is one of the most important discussions of our generation.
1:29.1	It already was. I mean, one of the first chats I ever had on this podcast was Dr. Fabette Murthy,
1:33.7	who is the surgeon general of the United States and his chat was all about loneliness. He had a great
1:38.3	book out about it. And so that was just pre-pandemic. We had no idea the height that loneliness would
1:44.4	then go on to reach and even after the pandemic, a lot of us still don't know how to reach out and
1:49.6	how to rejoin the world the way we want in it. Some of us don't want to, but it all impacts us
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