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What our possessions mean to us, with Russell Belk, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

How to Be Unencumbered With Possessions

Dr. Buck: It's really interesting to me how some possessions become sort of magical once they've been owned by someone you know you cared about, or even a famous person. You know it just imbues the item with something ineffable but really important and it just seems human nature to feel that way about things. We keep in touch via social media and we may follow things that people do but it's at a bit of a distance. And so it's difficult to be truly unencumbered with things that we love with possessions.

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