Why I'm Dying Inside as You're Talking About These Things

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When we expect our brains to hold it all, we're just asking too much of it. When you can have your stuff, i'm arrayed in a way that reminds you, oh, i've got to do that. That's two less things you have to keep in your mind. And then the last thing i'll say. As i was working on this non-profit, we had a shared office base and every day almost everyone sat at the same exact place. I know when i'm here exact yors what the spaces like, hears how long the desk. It's explaining exactly what you're talking about, right? Right?

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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