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Jun 2025
50m 33s

Doing it the Hard Way

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Learning to play a musical instrument is hard. So is trying to run a marathon, writing a term paper, and caring for a sick child. These things involve frustration, pain, and disappointment — yet we do them anyway. This week, in part two of our look at the allure of suffering, psychologist Michael Inzlicht explains what we get from doing things that are diffi ... Show More
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