Max Foster: I'm fascinated by every facet of human psychology. And i think something that makes this show different from simply reporting on a change is that i'm always interested in the psychological shifts that are happening underneath the surface. So i'm hearing about the external events that this person went through, but i'm always probing to understand how their psychology was changing along the way. It might be wrong to say that because i'm a cognitive scientist, my questions are informed by that. That's maybe where the cognitive science piece comes in.
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.
”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”
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