In a classroom with masks, I couldn't have understood them. So Zoom for the pandemic had that help. It could also put up transcription so that if I didn't understand their accent and they didn't get all my words, they at least had that other code. That helped. What also seemed to help interestingly, my classes were around 20. If I wasn't speaking from a PowerPoint, everybody was there on the screen where each of us were equal. The breakout sessions worked, again for teaching. They allowed the students more opportunities to interact with each other than being in class would. There's only so much you can smash into a screen.
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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