How Driven Are You by Ambition?

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I'm more hopeful and positive about human beings because i see the love and generosity of spirit from people who are consuming the show. And it makes me feel connected to people in a time when it's especially hard to connect with people. Does that make you better at your job? Probably. I think the more empathy we build as people and the more curiosity we cultivate about others, the better will be as interviewers. What about your ambition? How driven are you by ambition and what you want for yourself? Whether it's playing with pearlmen in carnegie hall, which happened, or working with borocco bama, which happened,. Or being named apples podcast of the year,

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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