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Aug 2022
50m 4s

You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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How well do we know ourselves? Maybe the better question to ask is how well can we truly know ourselves? Psychologist Tim Wilson says introspection only gets us so far, and that we often make important decisions in life and love for reasons we don't even realize. But he says there are some simple ways to improve our self-knowledge. 
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