Thinking Outside the Brain

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Think outside the brain can be seen a number of ways, but in this example, thinking outside the brain just simply means like, i can off load some things, know where they are, but not have to store them inside. They're stored outside, in a place i understand, yet my brain still kind of picks them out, chooses when to use them. Is that a fair depiction, slash analogy, of thinkingoutside the brain? It is. And we all the most familiar example of the way that we do that all the time is with our smart phones, right? I mean, our smart phones effectively act as an extension of our minds. So it's good to offload that

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing. She is the author of Origins, selected by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book,” and The Cult of Personality. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. Annie is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America.

You can learn more about Annie at: anniemurphypaul.com.

Annie's book, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, is available now.

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