Lecture: This Is Your Brain at 135mph-Lessons in Learning from the Racetrack

What happens when an art history professor encounters the turbo-charged world of high-performance driving? While she learns a great deal about the techniques and non-negotiable limits of piloting a fast car around a closed circuit, she learns even more about herself. Exploring what motivates us to learn new things and push the boundaries of our own self-limitations is the subject of this talk, as well as her book Fast Girl: Don’t Brake until You See the Face of God and Other Good Advice from the Racetrack.