Thought Club: an honest podcast and practical resources for minds that work differently
Your brain is interesting. Get to know it.
Conversations, ideas, and useful tools for understanding how you think, learn, get stuck, and get unstuck. No perfect brain required.
Good to see you again, friend.
Pick up where you left off — or wander somewhere completely different.
The Podcast
Big questions about how we learn, asked out loud.
We talk with educators, writers, psychologists, comedians, and the occasional magician about curiosity, learning, attention, uncertainty, and all the other things that rarely fit neatly on a test.
Learning Assessments: A Map of How Your Brain Works
Dr. Paul Yellin talks with Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray about understanding the particular brain you have — instead of measuring it against some imaginary perfect one.
Comedy: Why Learning Could Use a Laugh
The Simpsons writer Mike Reiss connects with Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray on humor, learning, and the surprisingly serious case for not taking everything so seriously.
College Admissions: Finding Meaning in the Madness
Neil Benjamin of Oxford Tutors meets with Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray on approaching the college admissions process with more self-awareness, more perspective, and considerably less existential panic.
Magic: Getting Comfortable with Not Knowing
Illusionist Matias Letelier muses with Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray on curiosity, uncertainty, and why not knowing the answer can be the beginning of something interesting.
Social Emotional Learning: What Neurodivergent Kids Have to Teach Us
Academy Award–winning producer and disability rights activist Peggy Stern meets with Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray about the power of social emotional learning (SEL), what neurodivergent kids have to teach us about optimal SEL, and the unexpected smash hit of her show and curriculum, Super D'ville.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Clarifying the Thoughts that Become Feelings and Actions
Cognitive behavioral therapist Dr. Abigail Wren talks to Thought Club founder and host Elisabeth Gray about how CBT works and why it might actually be beneficial for each of us, even if life is going swimmingly.
Resources
Start with what's getting in your way.
Focus. Organization. Big feelings. School. Relationships. Life. You don't need to fix your entire life before dinner. Pick the thing that's making today harder than it needs to be and let's work on it.
From the Feed
Simple ideas worth thinking about. Research, insights, and quotes that made us stop scrolling for a minute. From @JoinThoughtClub.
Stress may not be quite the villain we thought. How we think about stress can change how it affects our health, well-being, and performance.
See What Shifts → Did You Know?Your brain physically changes when you learn. It's called neuroplasticity — learning changes your mind, literally.
Nineteen More → ResearchAbout all that doomscrolling… researchers are looking at what prolonged scrolling may do to memory and attention.
Try the Experiment → Quote"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Socrates
Set a timer for five minutes and start the thing you've been avoiding.
Good. Five minutes. Not a new personality. Not a complete life overhaul. Five minutes.
Time's up. However far you got, you started. That matters more than it sounds.
A Little Something for Your Inbox
We'll send you a short note when there's a new episode, a useful resource, or something we genuinely think is worth your attention. Not every morning. Not because it's Tuesday. And never with seventeen exclamation marks.