How Has Your Psychology Been Affecting Your Life?

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"I feel like every conversation i've had has somehow stuck with me and stayed with me in this really powerful way," he says. "It's affecting the way that i think about myphilosophy on life. It's affecting the how that i thinkabout change."

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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