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Barbara Oakley

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first: 2018-04-10
most recent: 2018-04-10
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Those kind of people that they're super nice to you and then suddenly they just stab you in the back and try and, you know, KO your career and things like that. Why do people do things like that? And so I thought, wow, I'm a professor. I'm in a highly technical topic, right? My background is electrical engineering. My PhD was in systems engineering. Why don't I look up and see what science has to say about mean people?”
2018-04-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's kind of surprising because, so I'm a professor of engineering now. I started out as a linguist and then changed completely when I was in my late 20s to study engineering. But I always had this sort of yen to understand from a broader perspective. And unfortunately what academia often does is it like sharpens your focus so that you know more and more about less and less. And so I just didn't want to end up being that way. So that meant that I did my dissertation. I got my doctorate, hired on as an assistant professor, trying to get tenure. And even while I was trying to get tenure, in the background, I just had this stupid idea, wait a minute, I want to find out why mean people mean people do what they do, not psychopaths, but just.”
2018-04-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And absolutely perfectly normal person, I am not some super genius or anything of that nature. I'm actually a very slow learner, slow reader, slow whatever. And so I think this is a tribute to what an ordinary person can do if they just try out some new things.”
2018-04-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have no idea. I think it's, I just love it when I'm concentrating on something. That's sort of my therapy. And so what that means is like if I'm not concentrating on something, I feel all antsy. It's just like really. And so I end up just sort of doing this stuff. Mostly it's keep saying yes to when some bizarre opportunity arises. And I don't know. It's just turned out with this strange once you get into this path where you start doing kind of wacky things, then it becomes more comfortable and you're actually for what's the next wacky experience I can become involved in. And so it's looking back on it, I'm sort of surprised at everything because I'm actually”
2018-04-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT