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Ep. 277: Schedule an “Empower Hour,” a Know-Yourself-Better Question about Confiding Secrets, and a Spotlight on Writer Nnedi Okorafor

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

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Are You More Likely to Confere in Someone Not Close to You?

People confided their most pressing and worrisome concerns to people with whom they had weaker ties. In some cases, subjects actively avoided telling the people in their innermost circle because they feared unkindness or blowback. "I think it's because if it's someone not close to you, you can sort of tell them whatever it is you have to say," she says.

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