David Perry: You spent a lot of time diving into the work of Leonardo da Vinci. I'm curious as to what you learned. That was a wonderful opportunity, an incredibly talented musician friend, Rodin Opera, and Da Vinci for the five hundredth year of his birth. Unfortunately the performances, the pandemic interfered as it did with so much of our lives. It's Jonathan Berger and Jonathan's at Stanford; whenever he has a new opera and his operas are nonfiction based on real lives.
My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.
We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.
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