Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2022-04-18
Books mentioned on Maya Shankar: The Power Of Slight Changes (And Why We Do What We Do)
In today’s episode, cognitive neuroscientist & former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, Dr. Maya Shankar joins Rich to talk about the science behind growth & transformation.
Maya Shankar discussed The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker and Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct is a prominent popular science book that explores the innate nature of human language acquisition and processing.
Discussed“And I was in the basement, just kind of perusing the bookshelves. And I stumbled across a course book that my sister had had in college and called Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. And I opened it, and again, not expecting anything other than like, what is this?”
Where to get it
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Nudge
Nudge by Richard H.
Discussed“But Lori had heard Cass Sunstein, the co-author of the book Nudge. It's kind of one of the fathers of this space and had worked for Obama for four years, had heard him speak at a conference.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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