That began a very intense journey for me. Something lit-up in my mind, and I played a couple of notes immediately and requested a pint-sized version of the violin for myself. She’d brought it all the way with her from India when she emigrated to the US in the 1970s, and my mom just brought it down to show me. : When I was 6 years old, my mom brought down my grandmother’s violin from the attic. Q: How did you go from music to cognitive science? In this interview, I speak to Maya Shankar about her transformation from being a musician to leading the White House Behavioural Science Team, and what she’s learned about change and transformation through her podcast, “ A Slight Change of Plans.” She speaks to Tiffany Haddish on her transformation from foster care kid to Emmy-winning comedian a former member of the extremist Westboro Baptist Church on her experience walking away from a cult Kacey Musgraves on how psychedelics changed her perspective on art a young cancer researcher who gets a diagnosis that changes everything a Black jazz musician who convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the Klan and Hillary Rodham Clinton who was never willing to change in the way people wanted her to. Today, Maya is Senior Director of Behavioural Economics at Google and is the Creator, Host and Executive Producer of her brilliant new podcast A Slight Change of Plans which explores the question: What exactly happens when we find ourselves on the brink of change? Using her skills as a cognitive scientist, she delves into the incredible stories of a number of guests. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a postdoc in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, Shankar served in the Obama White House where she founded the White House Behavioural Science Team, which worked to create better policy using insights from behavioural science. Inspired by her personal story, Shankar has spent the last two decades studying how and why we change. A serious hand injury forced her not only to give up her dream, but to rediscover her identity in the process. The project is represented by Hannah Epstein and Carly Fromm at CAA.When Maya Shankar was 15 years old, her promising career as a concert violinist personally mentored by Itzhak Perlman came to an abrupt end. The series will be produced by The Cinemart, with Julia Willoughby Nason, Jenner Furst and Michael Gasparro executive producing. Shankar will host, write and executive produce A Slight Change of Plans with Pushkin Industries, and Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin CEO Jacob Weisberg serving as executive producers. The genre-bending format will meld humanism and science and will also see her visit with celebrities. The docuseries will see Shankar travel the world to connect with real-life people in the midst of impactful life changes. The series, which was named as the best show of the year by Apple, featured the likes of Tiffany Haddish, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Riz Ahmed and Kacey Musgraves as well as those such as a young man who builds cancer detection tools and who finds himself in the throes of his own stage 4 diagnosis, a Black jazz musician who convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the Klan.Ī Slight Change of Plans has had over 2.6M downloads.
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