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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Choice Blend in Psychology

People can't distinguish whether the reason their heart is beating fast is because they're on a shaky bridge or because they're attracted to a person. That fact about people that we cannot tell what's causing us to respond in the way we do became the basis for almost 50 years of psychological studies. We should have our inner Socrates check whether we mean what we just said, he says. You might not know it but you might not be so bad at walking through your own self knowledge.

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