Smart People Podcast

Annie Murphy Paul - How to Overachieve with our Limited Brain

Jul 5, 2021

01:05:26

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The Limits of the Brain

03:03

How to Over Achieve With Limited Storage Space

02:37

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

02:33

Introduction

4min

Think Outside Your Brain, Use Other Things

3min

Think Outside Your Brain, Use Your Body

2min

Is There a Switch in the Brain?

5min

How Much Does Space Have on Our Thinking?

3min

Is There a Need for Cues of Identity in Our Work Spaces?

3min

Why I'm Dying Inside as You're Talking About These Things

2min

Thinking Outside the Brain

3min

How to Over Achieve With Limited Storage Space

3min

10.

Do You Have a Learning Disability?

3min

11.

The Blue Light Glasses That Started It All

4min

12.

What Is Introception?

4min

13.

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

3min

14.

The Extended Mind - What's the Problem in My Mind With Interception?

2min

15.

The Limits of the Brain

3min

16.

The Blind Spot

4min

17.

You Can't Memorize All This, but It Can Change the Way You Think

2min

18.

What's the Impact of Nature on Our Thinking and Being?

4min

19.

The Hunt for Something Interesting on Twitterxy

2min

20.

Is This Reminding Me of Nature?

2min

21.

What's the Linear Process to Bringing a Story to Life

4min

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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