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“The Self Is a Story Your Brain Tells”
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Title: Selfie
Author: Will Storr
Category: Culture & Society, Psychology & Human Behavior, Philosophy & Big Ideas
Why does chasing your "true self" leave you more anxious than ever? Sam and Sophie open Will Storr's Selfie with that question, and it turns out the answer goes back further than you'd think.
The episode walks through Storr's history of selfhood — the ancient Greeks who had no inner self at…
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