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34. Maya Shankar Is Changing People’s Behavior — and Her Own

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Did That Work?

i wanted to do something that was a bit more social, working on teams. i had no connections in the political sphere. I wrote in the emel steve that i didn't think i was cool enough to work with the likes of obama. But thankfully, cass ignored all my insecurities and connected me with president obona's science adviser. And so a week later, i was pitching my soon would be boss on the idea of building out a new role for a dedicated behavior scientist in the white house. So you just wrode an emil to white house dot gove and said, my name's mine, i would like to be you adviser. Or how did

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