Episode 482: Maya Shankar
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