No one can experience you as you experience you. The public u will end up influencing the private u, like a beast devouring it. It makes me think that i've always thought of the profession of acting as being very odd because you're always portraying some one else. But we're all portraying someone else. We're just deluded into thinking that we're portraying exactly that's just like they're at least beingtot whereas we think that there's a kind of genuine no. And that's, i think this is something that is completely universal. Everybody, unless you are a hermit in a cave, ah, you can relate to us. Well, that's the power of
It’s a Borges bonanza! David and Tamler dive into two stories: “Emma Zunz” and “Borges and I.” The first seems like a straightforward daughter revenge story (Tamler’s favorite genre), but Borges being Borges there are layers of doubt and fuzziness about what exactly is going on. “Borges and I” may be less than a page, but it has us questioning our identity, the relationship between private and public selves, and what happens to when you release a work out into the world.
Plus, back to social psychology. Are you a picky eater? Then people think you suck at sex. We are not sure who is recording this podcast.
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- People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted
- Bradshaw, H. K., Mengelkoch, S., Espinosa, M., Darrell, A., & Hill, S. E. (2021). You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111082. — You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability
- Emma Zunz by Jorge Luis Borges
- Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges