I'm a Professor of Cognitive Science

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Gan: I was doing my post stock in a norro science lad and i had this moment that mademe, many people can relate toou. And so i leave the lad that day and i call laurie and i'm like, hey girl, you know that thing you've been helping me do for long time and you invested a ton of resources into, i don't wat to do that any more. Wich just very much in the guards. But then it was just fortuitous, max, because she'd just been to a conference where she heard about how the federal government were using insights from cognitive science to get loan can kids access to school lunch. It's one

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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