How to approach the daunting question: who am I? (w/ Brian Lowery)

How to approach the daunting question: who am I? (w/ Brian Lowery)

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      Sep 16, 2024
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Self-help & Personal development

If you take away how others see you, how do you see yourself? Psychologist, author and Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Brian Lowery argues that this question is so difficult to wrap our heads around because what we think of as our individual identity is actually a social construction. In this episode, he and Chris take us on a journey exploring the objective vs the subjective self, the performance of identity and how your view of others has a stronger sway than you realize.

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