Maya Shankar

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Maya Shankar is a Behavioral Scientist and former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House.Maya joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the concept of identity foreclosure, how people craft a narrative about themselves in order to connect to other people, and that there is a danger in tying our identities to our opinions and values. Maya and Dax discuss how they each define manifestation, the difference between bragging and self-promoting, and that admitting you are wrong about something actually gives you more credibility. Maya explains that changing minds is the most coveted form of change, that we are terrible cognitive forecasters, and how people can shift their reality based on their belief systems. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Mr. Mouse.
0:07.0	Hi.
0:08.0	Hello, Minister Mouse here.
0:10.0	The Duchess of Duluth at your Servi.
0:13.0	Somebody sent me a really cute left-handed mug that says Duchess of Duluth.
0:17.0	You're kidding.
0:18.0	Yeah, it's so cute.
0:19.0	Oh my God, and left-handed.
0:20.0	Well, yeah, they know what they're doing.
0:22.0	They know what they're doing. Wow, that's really nice. We have a wonderful guest today.
0:25.0	Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, we really, really love talking to her. It was in person. We could have done it for another five hours.
0:31.0	We barely scratched the surface of the things we wanted to talk about.
0:34.4	Truly. Her name is Dr. Maya Shanker and she is a cognitive scientist who served as a senior
0:41.0	advisor in the Obama White House where she founded and served as a senior advisor in the Obama White House,
0:43.1	where she founded and served as chair
0:45.2	of the White House Behavioral Science team.
0:47.4	She also served as the first Behavioral Science
0:49.8	Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon and is a core member of Mayor Pete's
0:54.6	debate preparation team. Also we're allowed to say but we weren't allowed to talk
0:58.4	about she is Google's behavioral scientists. That's right. Yeah so she's a a bad M fher. That's right. She has an
1:04.7	awesome podcast called A Slight Change of Plans, which is on Pushkin, which is of
1:10.7	course Malcolm Gladwell's. Favorite Malcolm Gladwells.
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