What I've Learned About Podcasting

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I think the thing i was prying at is whether there is connective tissue between these three totally different paths you have been on and ambition. I think when i take something on and i feel a lot of ownership over it, which i did with a violin,. And then with the white house team, i was building it from scratch. And then with a podcast and making the show, i just try and excel as much as i can. Just try to always make it the best thing that i can imagine. That might be the thing that's stayed constant.

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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