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Leaders need to get out of their heads. That’s the central message of this interview with acclaimed science writer and author of the Extended Mind Annie Murphy Paul. In this though provoking episode, Annie informs Jodah and Dan about the importance of feelings to thinking, how our bodies are important to our thinking process, how the physical spaces we work in impact our cognition, and how groups of people can effectively think better together. A fascinating episode perfect for executives and managers looking for new leadership tools and frameworks that involve the body, re-think physical workspaces, and build better teams able to engage in effective collective cognition. 

 

ABOUT ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of Origins, The Cult of Personality, and now The Extended Mind. Senior writer at the Hidden Brain Podcast on NPR.

 

Annie Murphy Paul’s Contact:

https://anniemurphypaul.com

 

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Jodah is late for the podcast because je’s taking a walk

01:32 – Why feelings are so important to thinking (Hint - Descartes was wrong)

04:30 – Expanding our understanding of thinking beyond the isolated brain

07:16 – Physical activity and thinking – movement a gesture augmenting or thinking

09:00 – Should leaders be taking more walks with their teams?

10:00 – The restorative power of nature

12:00 – Why you shouldn’t feel guilty for talking walks to stimulate thinking

13:00 – Negative impacts of mid-20th Century Cognitive Revolution – Brain is like a computer metaphor

15:00 – What is the source of consciousness and is consciousness too limiting a factor to our concept of mind?

18:00 – David Chalmers, Any Clarke, the extended mind, artificial intelligence, and human loppiness

19:20 – AI is another tool to help human thinking

20:00 – Non-conscious processing

22:05 – Stanislavski, arts, gesture, kinesthetic response, memory and thinking

34:30 – Social Introception – attuning your body to others

26:00 – What chimps can teach us about ourselves and leadership – especially non-verbal communication

28:57 – Workspaces and Zoom

30:00 – The loss of apprenticeship by osmosis due to remote work

31:00 – How do we balance the cognitive needs of workers – nature, remote work, om-person collaboration, urban congestion as companies like Amazon return to the offices

35:30 – Fatal flaw of the open office

37:30 – Effective open space team environments that use the physical space

41:35 – Transactive memory systems to find information

43:02 – Impact of cognitive offloading

46:00 – Cognitive apprenticeships, ChatBots, and Tutoring

48:00 – AI, decision making, empathy, and ruthlessness 

51:50 – How to use cognitive apprenticeship to train staff

54:00 – Asymmetrical deals and meditation

57:22 – How to contact Annie Murphy Paul

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