"We're making it hard on ourselves. It's something we care a lot about, but we're make it hard to do it," she says. "When i'm in that growth mind set, when a mistake is pointed out to me, like brain scanners show that my ... there's all this activity paying attention to the mistake so that i can figure out what i did and not do it again."
Most of us want to be good people–but what even makes a person “good?” And is our fixation on whether or not we ARE good holding us back from becoming even better? Dolly Chugh is an author and social psychologist who studies the psychology of good people. In this episode, she explains how ethical behavior is full of complexity and paradox, and shares insights on why even striving to be a “good-ish” person can actually help us grow into the better, nicer person we want to become.