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Mar 2021
51m 14s

The Story of Your Life

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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We can’t go back and change the past. We can’t erase trauma and hardship. But what if there was a way to regain control of our personal narratives? In the second part of our series on storytelling, we look at how interpreting the stories of our lives — and rewriting them — can change us forever. Also, a note that this week's episode touches on themes of tra ... Show More
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