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

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