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This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The R&D Division of the Human Spear

The main thing that Gopnik's learned growing up around the dinner table was that a snappy line was a good way of getting approval. A lot of them have to do with re-producing some of the conditions of childhood. I think things like certain kinds of spiritual traditions that have the idea that people retreat for some period of time.

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