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How to Be a Better Ally

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Hard Knock Life

When we think about all the unseen gifts we get just from existing as a non marginal person, that can make us feel kind of bad. They called it the hard knock life. Rather than experience all this discomfort, our minds try to cook the facts. We search our memory banks for the kinds of hardships that might make our own look less easy and therefore less privileged relative to a marginalized person. But dolly has found that there is a way to stop all the mental gymnastics that lead decent people down this not so good path. Despite writing an entire book on fighting injustice, dolly is the first to admit that it's easy to fall under the sway of motivated reasoning rationally....

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