Do You Know What You're Doing?

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When things go wrong, the chef who has distilled the experience will know what to do. We assume their knowledge and we assume there are knowledge and we put them into practice. And often when you pull back the onion here, we're two or three layers deep. A coach can see those new things and tell you when then you have to work to incorporate it into your body.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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