![]() ![]() I don't remember the details, but I do remember the phrase, "You lying snake," being among them. ![]() When I got to that person, my sleep-deprived brain, you know I had that kind of fog, and I launched into a verbal attack. Then I pressed the buttons necessary to get to an actual real person. What happened next?William Irvine: I was enjoying a mid-afternoon nap. You were recently taking a nap and you got woken up by a call from a telemarketer. Bill Irvine, welcome to Hidden Brain.William Irvine: Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.Shankar Vedantam: I want to start with a couple of small examples of the kind of irritants we all experience. He has spent years studying how we respond to setbacks, and how we might use ideas from philosophy and psychology to respond differently. ![]() This week on Hidden Brain, an ancient philosophy backed by modern psychology shows us how to respond wisely to disappointment and misfortune.Shankar Vedantam: William Irvine is a philosopher at Wright State University. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with setbacks. Lives are lost.News Clips: As hard as it is to fathom the record number of COVID deaths, public health officials are warning tonight that it will likely get worse before the situation improves.Shankar Vedantam: Life is filled with tragedies and hardship. Or the world suddenly and inexplicably is gripped by a major pandemic.News Clips: Cases now topping 15 million here in the US, 1.3 million of them in just the past seven days.Shankar Vedantam: Jobs are lost. Someone leaves the stove on, and your house catches on fire. You slip on the ice, and you break a wrist. TV shows like "Seinfeld" milk these situations for laughs.Seinfeld Clip (Jason Alexander, as George Costanza): Where the hell is this car, Kramer?Seinfeld Clip (Jerry Seinfeld): We need a system.Seinfeld Clip (Michael Richards, as Cosmo Kramer): Well, it's got to be here.Seinfeld Clip (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as Elaine Benes): Why have you been using so many colors? The numbers go up to 40.Seinfeld Clip (Jerry Seinfeld): Maybe it's not on this level.Seinfeld Clip (Jason Alexander, as George Costanza): What?Seinfeld Clip (Jerry Seinfeld): There's four different levels.Shankar Vedantam: When things like this happen in real life, you probably don't laugh. You wander around, your arms laden with shopping bags, cursing. We've all been there: you park your car in a giant lot, only to come back a few hours later and have no idea where you parked. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Instagram: To follow Steve on Instagram Facebook: /BetterPlaceProjectPodcast Twitter: Email. To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media: Website: Tap the link in bio to listen to the full episode. She's been profiled by The New Yorker and been the featured guest on NPR's “All Things Considered,” “Freakonomics,” and “Hidden Brain.” She's a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music's pre-college program, where she was a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A. Maya has a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford, a Ph.D. She also served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon, and as a core member of Pete Buttigieg’s debate preparation team during his 2020 presidential run. ![]() Maya was a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House Behavioral Science Team. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the creator, executive producer, and host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, which Apple recently awarded as the Best Show of the Year 2021. Maya also shares some really cool stories about her time working in the Obama administration, her sometimes painful journey with her husband Jimmy as they try so desperately to have a baby, we chat about the power of initiative and what role that has played in her life and so much more. We talked about what it’s like to be a UTTL (Unwilling traveler through life) as well as challenges Maya had to overcome that led to her launching her successful podcast, which blends storytelling with with neuroscience, to help us understand who we are and who we become in the face of big change. I loved this conversation, as we started the talk about Maya’s being accepted to Juilliard as a 9 year-old violinist and how and injury changed her life forever. I am back with a brand new episode featuring a fascinating interview with cognitive scientist and host of A Slight Change of Plans, Dr. ![]()
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