#657: Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation

Brought to you by  Wealthfront  high-yield savings account, Basecamp refreshingly simple project management, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Cover  sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating. John Vervaeke (@vervaeke_john) is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on cognitive development, intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom.Vervaeke is the director of UToronto’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory and its Cognitive Science program, where he teaches Introduction to Cognitive Science and The Cognitive Science of Consciousness, emphasizing the 4E model, which contends that cognition and consciousness are embodied, embedded, enacted, and exte