Maria Popova
speaker
931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They must be like, she started that word.
No, I mean, you have to...
Take into account the fact that in Bulgarian, we don't really have wordplay and puns.
It just doesn't quite exist, this notion, this use of language.
So when I came here, I was really excited about it.
These kind of strange idioms and wordplay.
And I will say also, I studied multiple things in college in addition to communication arts.
I also studied psychology and was very interested in neuroscience.
And I am not proud to say I was a kind of neo-Curtisian.
I really thought the mind is all there is.
How we think is who we are.
And over the years, as I befriended the life of feeling, the life of the body, and it reflected in the writing, I came to see, first of all, it was not just a brain thing, this thing, this search for meaning.
It can't live just in the brain.
And also, I was just disgusted with that very cheap pun.
But mostly, you know...
I looked back at some point.
I think it was somebody had asked me after I'd written my first book figuring why I write about women in science or queer people.
And I had never thought about those categories.
And I realized that I have been very influenced, moved, inspired, interested in people who existed in the margins of their time and place by whatever variable.
And because of that, because they were already other in some way, they had the kind of self-permission and freedom to think in ways others didn't think, to see what others didn't want to look at, and ended up coming up with the ideas that have moved this world forward, the so-called marginal people.
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