Think Outside Your Brain, Use Your Body

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When you talk about thinking right, when you say, think outside your brain, use your body, it actually is counter to pretty much how we're raised. That's why i struggled so much with, how can i think with anything other than the organ that thinks it'd be like if somebody said, throw a soft ball, not with your arm, or somethng? We absolutely do need to reconceptioize and get away from what is really just a very narrow, i would almost say like prejudice, or a bias in favor of the brain. And yet, my contention is that we're going to be needing to do that and more.

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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