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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

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The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

Sally Kohn: I think part of my identity built around like self-help books was not a helpful identity. She says she tries to find four sources of evidence where this is actually been true, this might be true. But that doesn't mean you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore advice in self-helpbooks because they're overstating their conclusions or pretending things are more solid than they really are. Skelton: You can get a lot of value out of self-helpBooks as a source of possible things that might work even if they're not as solid as the author's claiming they are.

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