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Change is one of life’s inevitabilities, but our brains aren’t wired to like the uncertainty that comes with it.
We revisit host Indira Lakshmanan’s February conversation with cognitive scientist and podcaster Maya Shankar, author of “The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans,” about how we process uncertainty and the way change transforms us.
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