Dr. Maya Shankar

Our human mind's ability to navigate change is absolutely not.

Our human mind's ability to navigate change is absolutely not.

In many ways, our minds are built for change.

In many ways, our minds are built for change.

There's no manual out there.

There's no manual out there.

There's actually no scientific textbook out there on how to navigate change.

There's actually no scientific textbook out there on how to navigate change.

You can't just look up the answers and be like, oh, I'm in the throes of this horrible health diagnosis.

You can't just look up the answers and be like, oh, I'm in the throes of this horrible health diagnosis.

What do I do?

What do I do?

And so I thought...

And so I thought...

What if we can mine people's stories, people who have navigated extraordinary change in their lives, like Hillary Clinton and Tiffany Haddish and Casey Musgraves and Tommy Caldwell and folks who have just lived through extraordinary change in general?

What if we can mine people's stories, people who have navigated extraordinary change in their lives, like Hillary Clinton and Tiffany Haddish and Casey Musgraves and Tommy Caldwell and folks who have just lived through extraordinary change in general?

What if we can mine their stories and glean insights from them about how it is they've navigated change in ways that can teach us valuable lessons?

What if we can mine their stories and glean insights from them about how it is they've navigated change in ways that can teach us valuable lessons?

It can help us think differently about change in our own lives.

It can help us think differently about change in our own lives.