Embedded Self Regulating

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Fidgeting is a way of indirectly influencing how we're thinking by getting the body moving, which is not this top down process that we're so used to thinking about. A research that i love by katherine isbest as a professor at the university of california at santa cruz, who looks at the ways that fidgeting can effect different kinds of fidget objects. And she calls it embodied self regulation.

Our curators — Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — recently named “The Extended Mind” by Annie Murphy Paul one of the best books of the year. In this episode, Annie returns to the Next Big Idea podcast for a spirited conversation with Adam in which she defends the fine art of fidgeting, suggests ways to improve group brainstorms, and gives Adam advice on how to talk to his childhood sensei.

By the way, Adam's brilliant TED podcast "WorkLife" is back now with a new batch of interviews — including a Nobel Prize winner, one of the world’s most influential leaders, a daredevil who’s mastered fear, and one of the most decorated Olympians ever. Find them on "WorkLife with Adam Grant" wherever you listen.