Iah, You Were a Professional Violinist?

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i began playing the violin when i was six. When i was nine, i auditioned for the juliards school of music pre college division and was very fortunately exempt axcepted. And then that began a weekly trips from connecticut to new york with my ma. We'd wake up at four 30 in the morning, drive to new yorksand engage in ten hours of classes over the course of the day. Iah, you were, aa, almost a professional violinist though you went to juliard. A, but i just loved violin, and it was everything to me. It was so foundational t to my identity.

A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart.

One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episode

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