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Why Your Brain Turns The Miraculous Into The Mundane—And How To Fix It | Maria Popova
New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.
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Smart and practical strategies for living, in Maria's words, wonder-smitten by reality.
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring, and maker of the live show The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now also a book.
In this episode we talk about:
- Wonder as a tool for improving all of your relationships
- The tyranny of the word should
- How the hardest thing in life is not getting what you want, it's knowing what you want
- Why she doesn't believe in making meditation a tool, even though she's been practicing for 14 years
- The illusion of certainty
- The immense value of intellectual humility
- Strategies for outgrowing your old habits
- Her new book, The Universe in Verse, which is a combination of science and poetry
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New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.
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Smart and practical strategies for living, in Maria's words, wonder-smitten by reality.
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring, and maker of the live show The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now also a book.
In this episode we talk about:
- Wonder as a tool for improving all of your relationships
- The tyranny of the word should
- How the hardest thing in life is not getting what you want, it's knowing what you want
- Why she doesn't believe in making meditation a tool, even though she's been practicing for 14 years
- The illusion of certainty
- The immense value of intellectual humility
- Strategies for outgrowing your old habits
- Her new book, The Universe in Verse, which is a combination of science and poetry
From The Marginalian: How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
Related Episodes:
- Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, and Leaning Intro Discomfort
- The Science Of Getting Out Of Your Head | Annie Murphy Paul
- George Saunders on: “Holy Befuddlement” and How to Be Less of a “Turd”
- The Profound Upside of Self-Diminishment | George Saunders
- A Radical Approach to Productivity, Self-Compassion Series | Jocelyn K. Glei
Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here
Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok
Ten Percent Happier online bookstore
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes
Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/maria-popova-818
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