![]() ![]() If you like the show, please support them - they help make the podcast possible. Thank you to our super cool brand partners. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. IT’S FREE ( ) and takes about 7-minutes to complete. Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. You’ll also love the conversations we had with Brené Brown about how we show up in our work and life. You can find Maya at: Website | A Slight Change of Plans podcast She has been profiled by the New Yorker and has been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, and on NPR's All Things Considered, Freakonomics, and Hidden Brain. Maya previously served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House's Behavioral Science Team - a team of scientists charged with improving public policy using research insights about human behavior. Maya is currently the Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google and is the Creator, Host, and Executive Producer of “A Slight Change of Plans”, a podcast with Pushkin Industries. How that moment affected her, and how she’d eventually discover a new, equally fulfilling devotion years later - human behavior and cognitive science - is a big part of today’s conversation, along with a deep dive into how we change our minds. Until, an injury took it all away in the blink of an eye. ![]() That’s what happened to Maya Shankar, who fell in love with the violin as a small child, studied it with love and devotion, was being mentored by the legendary Itzhak Perlman, and was sure it would be her profession for life. "I was first and foremost a violinist.Imagine being so drawn to a pursuit as a kid, it consumes most of your waking hours, rapidly becomes your identity, and is the thing you believe you’ll devote your life to, and then, in the blink of an eye, it’s taken away. "I was really devastated to lose something that I was completely in love with, and so passionate about, and that had really constituted such a large part of my life and my identity," she says. And if you like Hidden Brain and want more of it, please join our new podcast subscription, Hidden Brain+ Duration: 00:51. The Obstacles You Dont See, and The Psychology of Self Doubt. What followed in the days after her musical career ended was an incredible sense of loss. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. ![]() It's a new calling, and one she couldn't have anticipated at Juilliard, where she dreamed of being a concert violinist. At the age of 30, she was named a senior adviser at the Obama White House, working to create better policy using insights from behavioral science. She tore a tendon in her hand, bringing her musical career to an untimely end.Īs an adult, Maya has reached a new pinnacle in an entirely different field. ![]() The famed Itzhak Perlman had taken her on as his private student at The Juilliard School at the age of 14, and she was accepted to his prestigious summer program on Shelter Island.īut not long after, she injured her finger while playing a difficult section of Paganini's Caprice no. The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison and Maggie Penman. As a young girl, Maya was well on her way to a promising career as a classical violinist. ![]()
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