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Oct 2018
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33: How to Grow | Scott Barry Kaufman, P...

MAX LUGAVERE
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Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD is a professor of psychology at Columbia University. He's also a columnist for Scientific American and the host of The Psychology Podcast. He studies creativity, intelligence, and humanistic psychology and focuses on how to remove the blocks that impede living well. 

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