The Science of Change
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I'm Caleb Bissinger, and I'm Rufus Griskan. And this is the next big idea. Today, who you become when life makes other plans. This episode is about the moments in life when everything changes. A relationship implodes.
A routine checkup ends with a serious diagnosis. A dream is dashed. A door is slammed shut. Moments when life is reframed, divided between before and after. Maya Schunker is a cognitive scientist, she's a former White House advisor, and she hosts the award-winning podcast A Slight.
change of plans. She spent years interviewing people about their experiences with cataclysmic change, illness, incarceration, loss, heartbreak. What she found surprised her. On the surface, these stories looked nothing alike. But underneath, the same psychology, the same patterns, and crucially, the same strategies.
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