#69: Coltan Scrivner on First-Gen to Fame
Coltan Scrivner: you may not know the name, but you will. Coltan is a first-gen college student, and one of the most impressive PhD students I've come...
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Welcome to Cognitive Revolution with Cody Kommers. In this show we'll explore the personal side of the intellectual journey. It's all too easy to see the successes of great scientists, creatives, and thinkers as unattainable. But that's because we only see the outcome, not the process. Cognitive Revolution is a show about the steps these great minds took to get to the top.
#68: Alexandra Chesterfield on Being a Conservative in a Liberal Environment
Alexandra Chesterfield is co-author of the book Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together. It's a look at politi...
#67: Rebecca Saxe on the Beauty of the Mind
I have been a big fan of Rebecca and her work for a long time. She is the John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She i...
#66: Gordon Allport, the 20th Century's Psychologist
Gordon Allport was one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He was the progenitor of the modern forms of both social and pe...
#65: Elizabeth Ricker on Personalizing Your Creative Process
I really enjoyed this conversation with Elizabeth Ricker; it was one of those conversations where I felt as though I'd found a kindred spirit, someone...
#64: Azeem Azhar on the Exponential Age
Azeem Azhar is a technologist and investor with a background in technology journalism. His newsletter, Exponential View, is enjoyed by ~200,000 reader...
#63: Jay Van Bavel on the Power of Us
Jay Van Bavel is the closest thing social psychology has to a rock star. His official title is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at...
#62: Edward Slingerland on How to Drink Well
Ted Slingerland is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where his interests and affiliations include East Asian studies, psychology, phi...
#61: Scott Atran on the Risks We're Willing to Take
Wow. Scott Atran. What a guy. What a career. I'd be willing to bet that Scott has had the highest density of near-death encounters during his research...
#60: Wade Davis on Becoming an Entrepreneur of Knowledge
Wade Davis makes his living being interesting. He is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist by trade, and holds a position as the BC Leadership C...