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Why Your Brain Turns The Miraculous Into The Mundane—And How To Fix It | Maria Popova

19 Aug 2024

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New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Smart and practical strategies for living, in Maria's words, wonder-smitten by reality. Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring, and maker of the live show The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now also a book. In this episode we talk about: Wonder as a tool for improving all of your relationships The tyranny of the word should How the hardest thing in life is not getting what you want, it's knowing what you want Why she doesn't believe in making meditation a tool, even though she's been practicing for 14 years The illusion of certainty The immense value of intellectual humility Strategies for outgrowing your old habits Her new book, The Universe in Verse, which is a combination of science and poetry From The Marginalian: How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty Related Episodes: Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, and Leaning Intro Discomfort The Science Of Getting Out Of Your Head | Annie Murphy Paul George Saunders on: "Holy Befuddlement" and How to Be Less of a "Turd" The Profound Upside of Self-Diminishment | George Saunders A Radical Approach to Productivity, Self-Compassion Series | Jocelyn K. Glei Sign up for Dan's weekly newsletter here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Ten Percent Happier online bookstore Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/maria-popova-818

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