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Sep 2019
25m 44s

How to Find Your Silver Linings

PRX AND GREATER GOOD SCIENCE CENTER
About this episode
Do you fixate on what's going wrong in your life? Poet and "recovering pessimist" Maggie Smith practices looking on the bright side. Link to Episode Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/5n8cy7fk
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