The Importance of Having a Negative View of Yourself

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I've always thought actually, you know, when in Beth Loftus has done all this work on false memory and one of the things one of the big battles that she's fought is against these people who do do recovered memory therapy. I mean, it seems like a very sort of characteristic of a depressed person. But yeah, maybe it could be helpful for people who are in that spiral.

Do you think of your life as a story? Does your life have a narrative structure or form? Do you identify with your past selves and your future selves? If not, can you live a good life, a moral life, an authentic life? Can you feel guilt, regret, and resentment? Plus, speaking of stories, we talk about a new study suggesting that books with anthropomorphic animals can't teach moral lessons to kids.

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