But most scientists are so focused on their work. Well, I think there’s not many I think Steven was one and he he certainly reached touched a lot of people. What do you notice about the ones that are able to make that transition to being able to move into the storytelling and tell them tell their stories? For those other people that come who come from a science background. I mean, I mentioned before you’ve worked with the late professor, Stephen Hawking, I know you’ve also worked with Deepak Chopra. So there is there is obviously a real art to taking science and adding that kind of storytelling component.
They’re they’re kind of things where as I was reading the book, and I was every so often I would, I would say, Oh, listen to this, I will say to my wife, listen to this, you guess guess what? You’d never guess what I mean, I remember one of the ones I think I talked to her about a duck’s penis, which is in the book, so you’re gonna have to get through, we’re gonna have to get a copy of the book to understand what that’s all about as well. And there’s also I guess, you call them kind of mind hooks, as well. And so it’s a lot of mining, to find those little gems.Īnd remember, there’s some wonderful stories in this. It’s it’s kind of like mining, it’s like think of it as mining Bitcoin by mining stories. And that makes my point, then, then I get really happy and I feel like I’ve discovered gold. Our old obscure publication, scientific publications, I go everywhere, and I spend a lot of time reading and when I find one that really engages me. So I I’ll scour old newspapers, not necessarily the New York Times, but maybe the St. And thank God for the internet, because I use the technology. Well, that’s interesting, because I think that one of the key components of my books is to have interesting stories, I tried to introduce the concepts in a non technical way through a story, I really believe in storytelling. And where else do you go to find stories as a writer? So you put some of those stories from your own kind of personal life. And I tried to, to be open and to write about it, honestly, and wherever it fit to use those stories. And so for this book provides a lot of fodder. But the result was that I grew up in a house that was a bit unusual, and where emotions were very strong. And unfortunately, my parents went through the Holocaust. So the stories I’m telling are either emotional stories or stories about strong dramatic emotions that I felt growing up with my family.
But of course, in this book, it was I went a bit deeper, because the book is about emotion. So I always talk a lot about tell stories for my own life. And so what do I know, I know my my own life. I tried to make them entertaining and to draw in the reader. And I think what I try to do as a science writer, is to bring some story and drama humor, to my, to my books, and to make them as far away from textbooks or the kinds of books that you might see authored by a researcher and his or her own work. So as I was reading this book, it book is on emotions, and actually felt like quite an, it must be quite an emotional book to write because you actually in the book, you, you share a number of stories about your mother and your father in it as well did that the fact that you were writing a book about emotions lead to you having to write a more personal book, maybe then you’ve you’ve written previously? How Emotions Shape Our Thinking With Leonard Mlodinow His latest book Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking explores the new science of feelings and offers us an essential guide to making the most of one of nature’s greatest gifts.įor More of SuperCreativity Podcast By James TaylorĪrtificial Intelligence Generated Transcriptīelow is a machine-generated transcript and therefore the transcript may contain errors. Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist and author of five best-selling books including Subliminal, The Drunkard’s Walk, and the #1 New York Times bestseller ‘The Grand Design’, co-authored with the late Professor Stephen Hawking. How can you make better decisions? How can you improve your relationship with others? What can you do to live a happier life? My guest today argues that the answers to all these questions and more lie in understanding our emotions.
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