The World Is Controlling Our Actions

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The world is communicating to us not just indirectly in these categories and hierarchies, but it's also telling us how to behave. So diagrams are one way to improve our thinking in the small. Even written text is a way of improving our thinking, making lists. All those ways of externalizing mind can help bring it into the mind and improve it, especially if it's well designed.

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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