The Nine-Month Period's Impact on Our Lives

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The nine-month period between conception and birth is crucial in shaping our future health and personality. This period is often overlooked compared to conception and birth but has a significant influence on how we handle stress and other aspects of our lives. The speaker suggests that understanding what shapes us is a common theme in their work, including their latest book on intelligence and thinking. They challenge the conventional belief that thinking only happens in the brain, proposing that it occurs throughout our bodies, interactions, and physical surroundings.

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and other publications.

Our conversation focuses on the subject of her latest book, The Extended Mind, which is about how human cognition relies on our bodies, other people, and the material world. I loved this book and was thrilled to ask Annie about how this line of thinking plays out in the context of our heavily digitized lives.

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