The Thought Club Podcast
Conversations about how people actually learn, with a developmental pediatrician, a Simpsons writer, a mindfulness coach, and a working illusionist. Nobody lectures. Most episodes run under half an hour.
Episodes
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Learning Assessments: Building a Roadmap to Your Brain
What an assessment can actually tell you, and why the perfect brain everyone is comparing themselves to does not exist.
Comedy: Learning Through Laughter
The funniest teacher you had was probably the one you still remember. Mike Reiss explains why that is not a coincidence.
Mindfulness: The Unexpected Meaning-Making of College Admissions
Admissions is an efficient machine for producing panic. It is also one of the few times anyone asks a teenager who they are.
Magic: Cultivating Curiosity Through Illusion
That moment when you have no idea how something just happened. Matias Letelier thinks it is the best part, not the worst.
Social Emotional Learning: What Neurodivergent Kids Have to Teach Us
Peggy Stern built a children's show around neurodivergent kids. They turned out to have the clearest things to say about feelings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Clarifying the Thoughts that Become Feelings and Actions
How CBT actually works, and why the idea underneath it is useful even when nothing is especially wrong.
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