Michael Pollan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the idea is you wear a beeper.
And it goes off at random times during the day.
And he gives you a little pad and you write down exactly what you were thinking at that moment.
And then you collect a bunch of beeps over the course of a day.
And then you have a Zoom session with him where he kind of interrogates you about your beeps or what you recorded about them.
And it's really hard to do.
And one of the things I learned was how little we know about our own thought process.
So I would see something that was clear to me.
I remember there was one beep.
I was putting a piece of salmon that I had salted in the refrigerator.
And the beeper goes off.
And at that very moment, I'm thinking, forgot the pepper.
Most of my thoughts were pretty banal.
I have to tell you in advance.
Yeah.
Well, I was in the moment.
Thank you.
It sounds a lot better that way.
So I thought that was an absolutely clear beat.
But when we had the conversation about it, he said –