Essentialism and Sesame Street

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Sesame Street is an incredible tool for getting young children to change their minds in positive ways. Sesame street has masterfully a help to build a better world through this really creative and cute show that families invite into their homes. i'm just so moved by the way in which cecime workshop has am found a way, again, to to change people's minds,. A, and to get them thinking differently, in ways that might be different from what they're taught in school or what they're seeing on news.

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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