Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman,

and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest

you will stimulate your mind

and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others,

and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Just a quick note that today's episode is going to be a rerun. The next season of the

Psychology podcast will begin later this year. I haven't taken any break in five years of doing this

podcast so I thought it was about time to take a step back and think about how it

can make this a better experience for you all. Until then, enjoy these episodes

from our archives.

Thanks so much for making time.

I know you're extremely busy.

Oh, my pleasure, completely.

We have a mutual friend Josh Wightkinkin who have known for quite a long time.

We've always talked about him. I was just texting with him about 15 minutes ago.

Oh my gosh, well tell him you're talking to Scott Kaufman.

I will I will that's very funny yeah he's a great guy.

Yeah so you probably get like lots of the same kinds of questions so I thought I'd you know

Try to take this to another higher level because in some ways we've had different we've had

like parallel paths so I've studied the science of high performance the science of

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