Do You Have a Learning Disability?

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i think we could be a lot more conscious of how to do this. And that would that would benefit all of us. i don't think i could have written the book successfully if i hadn't employed the very things that i was learning about in the course of researching and reporting the book. You know, what you're doing is taking the mental map that your brain constructs,. because we do navigate through the landscape of ideas in a way that's similar to, the way we evolve to find our way through a landscape and in the real world.

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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