Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

This book by Leonard Mlodinow was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: guest. It comes up in conversations about brain health, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing demands on our attention, we are confronted every day with a plethora of new challenges. Fortunately, as Leonard Mlodinow shows, the human brain is uniquely engineered to adapt.

• “there's a book i like a lot but i've been by physicists you probably know this book could elastic you might know it”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's a book i like a lot”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 202100:41:49

  Said during "Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | Lex Fridman Podcast #226". The episode features Jo Boaler: A mathematics education professor at Stanford and co-founder of youcubed.org, which provides research-based tools to make math creative and accessible. She is the author of Limitless Mind and a co-writer of California's new math framework. Stanford educator Jo Boaler argues math is a beautiful, visual, creative subject and anyone can learn it with the right mindset and teaching.