Teenage Rebellion Is So Common in the West

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When you have the clarity of death looming, people sort of look back over their lives and they realize the extent to which they have been living a life shaped by others around them. In a sense, trying to find who you are is really trying to stake your territory out as being different to your parents. That's why teenage rebellion is so common in the West because this is what is culturally what we're supposed to do. And then that also explains why you turn into your parents when you reach mid-20s. Your biology wins out.

Is the person you believe to be the protagonist of your life story real or a fictional character? In other words, is your very self real or is it an illusion? According to psychologist Bruce Hood, the person at the center of your life isn't really there; it's all neurological smoke and mirrors. Sure, you have the sensation that you have a self, and that sensation is real, but the beliefs and ideas that spring from it are not. Learn all about it in this episode in which you'll hear some new material mixed with a rebroadcast of episode four's interview with the author of The Self Illusion, Bruce Hood.

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