What's the Woman's Name in the Book?

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Psychologists are experts at using internal sensations to inform their thinking. introception is really a bodily basis of ampathy between two people. We only know what's going on inside our selves, that's the only thing we have embodied access to. The idea of how to do really hard mental work is to push that aside and ignore what the body is telling you,. But that means that we're missing out on incredibly informative source of knowledge and wisdom.

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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