In conversation with How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes author Maria Konnikova, Arianna Huffington explains that no one -- not even the head of a 24/7 multimedia company -- needs to be plugged in all the time.<br /><br />This is the ninth video in an exclusive video series of today’s brightest minds exploring the theory of genius. Exclusive videos will be posted daily on http://youtube.com/bigthink throughout 92nd Street Y’s second annual 7 Days of Genius Festival: Venture into the Extraordinary, running March 1 to March 8, 2015 (http://www.92y.org/genius).<br /><br />Follow the conversation via #7DaysOfGenius<br /><br />Exclusive interviews with thought leaders, filmed at YouTube Space New York studios (https://www.youtube.com/yt/space/new-york.html), include:<br /><br />- Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post and Maria Konnikova, Writer and Journalist, discussing the science of mindfulness.<br /><br />- Bill Nye, Science Educator, Comedian, Writer and Actor, and Jake Roper, Broadcast Journalist, exploring how to nurture future geniuses.<br /><br />- Heather Berlin, Neuroscientist, and Carl Zimmer, Science Writer and Blogger, examining neuroscience and genius; and<br /><br />- Joy Hirsch, professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine, and Carl Zimmer discussing creativity and the brain.<br /><br />Follow Big Think here:<br />YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5<br />Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom<br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink<br /><br />Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd
