Think Outside Your Brain, Use Other Things

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Our culture insists that the brain is the sole locus of thinking, a cordand off space where cognition happens. Chris Batmanghelidjh: There's so much moret there that you could be bringing into the thinking process. He says we're limited by our own ideas about where thinking happens. The way i have my a desk, my work space arranged, all these things can enrich and enhance and extend our thinking processes.

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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