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Maya Shankar
Cognitive scientist
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host and executive producer of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.[3]
Career
Podcast: A Slight Change of Plans
A Slight Change of Plans was first published in 2021 by Pushkin Industries, the media company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jakob Weisberg.
Mayan culture and history (López 68).
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A Slight Change of Plans explores what happens after a person experiences a life-changing event. It’s inspired by Shankar’s experience as a young classical violinist, training at Juilliard, whose career was cut short by an injury.
“My whole childhood revolved around the violin, but that changed in a moment when I injured my hand playing a single note,” said Shankar. “I was forced to try and figure out who I was, and who I could be, without it.” [4]
On the show, Shankar interviews people who have lived through different kinds of big changes — accidents, deaths, kidnappings — to understand how they