Curiosity Daily Podcast: Elastic Thinking (w/ Leonard Mlodinow), How People Judge You, and Your Time Perspective
Learn how you can change your thinking to keep up with today’s fast-paced world, with some help from author Leonard Mlodinow. Plus: learn about the two criteria people use to judge you, and how you can measure your relationship with time.
Episode Show Notes:
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- According to a Harvard Psychologist, People Judge You Based on Two Criteria — https://curiosity.im/2DhYT8B
- This Psychology Quiz Will Explain Your Relationship With Time — https://curiosity.im/2Dgc2ip
Resources and publications from Leonard Mlodinow:
- Follow @lmlodinow on Twitter — https://twitter.com/lmlodinow
- “Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change” — https://amazon.com
- Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow review via The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/18/elastic-flexible-thinking-leonard-mlodinow
- Leonard’s Wikipedia page — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Mlodinow
- “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior” — https://amazon.com
- “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives” — https://amazon.com
- “The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey From Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos” — https://amazon.com
- “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow — https://amazon.com
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