The Colin McEnroe Show - Connecticut Public Radio

Dr. Schooler joins novelist and Columbia Professor, Leslie Jamison, along with maladaptive daydreaming advocate, Jayne Rachel, to discuss daydreaming:

"Do you daydream? What do you daydream about? This hour is all about the art of daydreaming. We'll reflect on the value of daydreaming, and why it can be so difficult to talk about our daydreams. Plus, we’ll look at what daydreaming does to our brains, and we’ll learn about maladaptive daydreaming."

Self Improvement Atlas: The Personal Science Insights Podcast

In this episode, host Aditi Kutty interviews Dr. Schooler on the aging brain and memory loss:

"Aditi and Dr. Schooler discuss the definition of aging brain, how it relates to memory loss and impact on our personal life, and different kinds of memory. Dr. Schooler also shares his favorite book, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, from Alan Watts."

Mind-Wandering vs. Mind-Wondering

Juliana Zapp, a certified yoga instructor with a Bachelor degree in psychology pursuing a career in holistic health, interviews Dr. Schooler on mind-wandering and mindfulness.

Listen to an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Dr. Schooler! This wide-ranging conversation examines how mind-wandering can serve as a window into the psychological world of meta-awareness. Further topics include the nature of consciousness, mindfulness, creativity, free will, verbal overshadowing and more.

Sucheta Kamath, an award-winning speech-language pathologist, a TEDx speaker, and the founder and CEO of ExQ, interviews Dr. Jonathan Schooler. 

In this episode:

Jonathan Schooler discusses his work in human cognition; particularly mind-wandering, its disruptive nature, its hidden benefits, and its link to meta-awareness. As he explains, since the mind is only intermittently aware of engaging in mind wandering, enhancing meta-awareness can be an important process to heighten monitoring and improve executive function.

Matt Asher: 

"I speak with UCSB professor and META lab director Jonathan Schooler about some of my favorite topics, including panpsychism, multiple minds, the filter that is consciousness, and how we understand the world."

Kieth Miller, host of the podcast "Soul of Life," interviews Dr. Jonathan Schooler: 

In this episode...

“Everything is magic until we understand it.”

-Arthur C. Clark

How do you know that you’re conscious? I mean, don’t you just kind of know?

“The single thing that we know best from our own first person perspective and understand least from the perspective of objective science.”

Daydreaming about an interesting idea can yield creative insights, a process Jonathan Schooler calls mind-wondering, rather than mind-wandering.

It's a workday, just after lunch. You have a deadline and there's plenty of time left in the day to get the task done. If only you could stop thinking about other things. One thought can lead to your mind just...wandering away. This can't be good, right? You've probably been scolded as a kid for daydreaming in class. But in recent years, neuroscientists and psychologists have found that there are some very redeeming qualities to this mental state - in fact, it could be an essential cognitive skill. Here's an excerpt from an interview conducted with one of those researchers.

Being called a daydreamer, especially as an adult, often has negative connotations. But researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been studying the value of what they call ‘mind wandering’. Jonathan Schooler, a professor of psychological and brain sciences has been looking specifically at creative scientists and creative writers to see when they have creative ideas.

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