Schauer Thoughts? More like Schauer Cognitive Labor! Kidding, we have fun here. Welcome to part two of my mini-series on cognitive labor! Remember, not everyone is out to use you, discernment is a skill, and always do your own research. Thank you all for listening and as always, please feel free to run the episode and resources by your therapist.

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Substack:

https://sarahschauer.substack.com/p/schauer-thoughts-book-club-additional?utm_source=activity_item

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahschauer/membership

Resources:

The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again - Catherine Price 

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - Emily Falk

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell 

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - Robert Jay Lifton

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change - Emily Falk

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/annenberg-emily-falk-book-what-we-value

Thought terminating cliches:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

The Power of Silence: Unpacking Thought-Terminating Cliches

https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/the-power-of-silence-unpacking-thought

Entertrained 

https://entertrained.app

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This week on Schauer Thoughts we’re discussing cognitive labor: what it is and isn’t, situations you use it in, and how to tell when someone is using you for your cognitive labor via thought-terminating cliches! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the discussion.

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This week in the communal Schauer we’re discussing the actual, neurological, downside of intentionally (not accidentally) misunderstanding others! Now I do want y’all to know that there is a difference between genuine debate and being an obtuse pr*ck, so please don’t assume I’m saying “never disagree again.” You can understand (comprehend) someone but you do not have to validate their augment (apply positive or negative moral judgement) because those are two separate processes in the brain. Other than that, please enjoy this episode, have an amazing week, and I hope you feel *a moderate to intense* experience of delight with this new information!

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For more information on my book club visit:

Substack:

https://sarahschauer.substack.com/p/schauer-thoughts-book-club-additional?utm_source=activity_item

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahschauer/membership

Resources:

Olivia Unplugged Tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@olivia.unplugged?_t=ZT-90APwzxxDNG&_r=1

Life In Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker PhD

Use Powerful Intentions to Become Your Authentic Best 

https://newayscenter.com/powerful-intentions-authentic-best/

The influence of intentions on dream content 

https://academic.oup.com/sleepadvances/article/5/1/zpae088/7912101

How the Little-Known Zeigarnik Effect Impacts Everyone Daily

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/natural-order/202209/how-the-little-known-zeigarnik-effect-impacts-everyone-daily

The Art of Sustainable Performance: The Zeigarnik Effect

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46463-9_10

Dreaming and offline memory processing

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)01360-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982210013606%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

The Neuroscience of Goals and Behavior Change

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5854216/#:~:text=This%20habit%20learning%20process%20also,with%20in%20the%20first%20place.

The neural bases of feeling understood and not understood

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4249470/#nst191-B33

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Here it is! Part three to why AI will never truly replace humans - it can’t “afford” to. This weeks episode is a bit long and rambly and for the sake of y’alls likely waning interest in AI, I’m going to include some additional reading on how AI is effecting the environment and what can be done to stop as well as mitigate the damage. Next week I’ll be moving onto another topic, another Schauer filled with long-winded musings and hopefully hotter water (and takes.) Thank you so much for hanging in there, I hope you and your brains leave a little bit more pruny (wrinkles in your brain are a good thing lol.)

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This week we’re doing a part two to why AI will never truly replace human beings - we’ll discuss neuroscience, opinions from accredited experts, as well as go on several explanatory tangents about how the brain *actually* works and how AI does not work like that. Please enjoy this week’s communal Schauer and I hope (a type of wonder -> happiness + fear) to see you all join my book club, starting September 21 & 22nd! More information linked below.

Book Club Info:

Sunday & Monday dates available!

Substack:

https://sarahschauer.substack.com/p/schauer-thoughts-book-club-additional?utm_source=activity_item

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahschauer/membership

Resources:

The Human Brain Doesn’t Learn, Think or Recall Like an AI. Embrace the difference

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-09/human-brain-artificial-intelligence-model

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli 

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

The Nature and Technique of Understanding: Some Fundamentals of Semantics - Hugh Woodworth 

- Book I talked about having feelings, sensations, etc. outlined - pg. 26 & 27

Epistemic Injustice: Power & the Ethics of Knowing - Miranda Fricker 

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This week we’re going over what AI can’t “afford” to do that the human brain can! Next week we will cover more on the “neuroscience” (actually just programming) of AI, as well as the ecological impacts. No need to sit tight, this week we’re sensing, feeling, and moving through the communal Schauer as a collective to spite some *very much* artificial intelligence. 

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Book Club:

For information about my book club, as well as cost, schedule, and additional learning opportunities, please visit my Substack, linked below. 

The outline, as well as the platform it will be hosted on - likely Patreon (not Substack, even though I do know the platform can host book clubs) will go up on my Substack at noon PST on Wednesday, September 10. 

I hope you all can join, I am so beyond excited to read and share with you all!

My Substack:  https://substack.com/@sarahschauer?utm_source=user-menu

Book Club Book:

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Makes a Fuller, Better Life - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

Resources: 

Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t

https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/

The Human Brain Doesn’t Learn, Think or Recall Like an AI. Embrace the Difference

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-09/human-brain-artificial-intelligence-model

Mind Brain Lecture: Neuroscientist Anthony Zador on the Future of AI and the Brain

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/mind-brain-lecture-neuroscientist-anthony-zador-on-the-future-of-ai-and-the-brain/

The Posterior Parietal Area V6A: An Attentional-Modulated Visuomotor Region Involved in the Control of Reach-to-Grasp Action

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422003128

Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation - Christopher Kemp

Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

Tech Agnostic - Greg M. Epstein

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli 

Additional Links

The Huntington Library & Gardens

 https://www.huntington.org

Madeline Garden & Bistro

https://www.instagram.com/madeline_garden/?hl=en

Photoskin: Illuminating Body Gloss 

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This week we’re getting into the psychology, strategy, and *alleged* manipulation tactics of E.L.F. Cosmetic’s latest beauty campaign featuring *womp womp* Matt Rife. Come bare faced or use a good setting spray because the communal Schauer is hot this week and methods to conceal will be tested and removed. 

My Substack:  https://substack.com/@sarahschauer?utm_source=user-menu

Resources:
Flow - Mihaly Csikszemtmihalyi 

The Science of Revenge - James Kimmel, Jr. JD

How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - Batja Mesquita

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life - Sissela Bok

Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People - G. Richard Shell

Why It’s So Hard to Ask for Help

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202308/why-its-so-hard-to-ask-for-help

Exclusive: The Story Behind ELF’s Controversial Matt Rife Campaign 

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/beauty/exclusive-the-story-behind-elfs-controversial-matt-rife-campaign/

Paltering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paltering

Evidence of paltering

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/beauty/exclusive-the-story-behind-elfs-controversial-matt-rife-campaign/

Who does nostalgia speak to?

https://www.kantar.com/inspiration/advertising-media/take-me-back-the-power-of-nostalgia-in-advertising

Elf Cosmetics Puts Beauty Prices on Trial After Raising Its Own

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/elf-cosmetics-puts-beauty-prices-on-trial-after-raising-its-own/

ELF Beauty Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire rhode in $1 Billion Deal

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250528613364/en/e.l.f.-Beauty-Announces-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-rhode-in-%241-Billion-Deal

Jester’s Privilege 

https://ludwig.guru/blog/the-jesters-privilege-or-the-power-of-being-unheard/

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Here we are, part two of our series on becoming who you want to be using method acting and flow state! This week we’ll be fleshing out our potential new personas, giving them motivations, beliefs, lore, and much more to *temporarily* adopt characteristics to expand our range - logically and expressively. No need for movement clothes or dance shoes in the communal Schauer, just hop in whenever you’re ready.

Make sure to like and subscribe on Youtube, as well as rate my 5 stars on whichever platform you’re streaming from! Thank you.

Substack

 https://substack.com/@sarahschauer?utm_source=user-menu

Resources:

What is Self-Esteem?

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-self-esteem-2795868 

Understanding the Interplay Between the Nervous and Muscular Systems

https://www.maven-pt.com/maven-stories/understanding-the-interplay-between-the-nervous-and-muscular-systems

Character Development: A Guide for Actors

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/character-development-for-actors-76083/#:~:text=Gather%20as%20many%20basic%20details,role%2C%20message%2C%20and%20theme.

The Outside In Acting Technique 

https://www.stagemilk.com/acting-technique-outside-in/

Nine components associated with the flow state experience 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7551835/table/behavsci-10-00137-t001/

How to Get Into Flow State: 8 Tips to Unlock Peak Performance

https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/blog/how-to-get-into-flow-state

A Review on the Role of the Neuroscience of Flow States in the Modern World

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7551835/#B15-behavsci-10-00137

Color Psychology: Does It Affect How You Feel?

https://www.verywellmind.com/color-psychology-2795824

How ambient temperature affects mood: an ecological momentary assessment study in Switzerland 

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-023-01003-9

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

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Welcome back! We’re discussing the psychology, neuroscience, and applications of method acting and flow state to develop behavioral and character range, aka “become the person you want.” This week’s communal Schauer will be very STEAM heavy, but don’t worry, next week we’re bringing it all together to cultivate a performance that feels personal and true to you (and who you could be). 

Make sure to “like” and subscribe on Youtube, rate my 5-stars wherever you get your podcasts, and check out my Substack where I have additional musings.

Substack

 https://substack.com/@sarahschauer?utm_source=user-menu

Resources:

The Psychological Effects of Method Acting

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-psychological-effects-of-method-acting-45035

The Neuroscience of Romeo and Juliet: an fMRI study of acting

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181908

A Review on the Role of the Neuroscience of Flow States in the Modern World 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7551835/#B15-behavsci-10-00137

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

Your Conscious Mind - New Scientist 

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism - Fritjof Capra 

The Meaning of Proofs: Mathematics as Storytelling - Cabriele Lolli

Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation - Christopher Kemp

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Obi Ogas

Reductionism in Art & Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures - Eric R. Kandel 

A Little Book of Language - David Crystal

Submit - A Memoir by Sonnett

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Today we’re talking a leisurely stroll through the neuroscience of cringe! Behold the surprising sadness that awaits just beyond our cranial walls. Clear your calendar and your conscience and step into this week’s communal shower. Feel free to leave your dignity at the door.

Resources:

That’s Cringe: The Neuroscience Behind Embarrassment

https://greymattersjournal.org/thats-cringe-the-neuroscience-behind-embarassment/ 

How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - Batja Mesquita

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