Episode 482: Maya Shankar

Published: March 30, 2022, 12:26 p.m.

b'Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of\\xa0A Slight Change of Plans.\\n\\u201dI 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. [\\u2026] 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?\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@drmayashankar\\n\\nmayashankar.com\\n\\nApple Podcasts\' Best of 2021\\n\\n35:00\\xa0A Slight Change of Plans,\\xa0"A Black Musician Takes on the KKK"\\xa0(Pushkin Industries \\u2022 May 2021)\\n\\n38:00\\xa0A Slight Change of Plans,\\xa0"Maya\'s Slight Change of Plans"\\xa0(Pushkin Industries \\u2022 Oct 2021)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'