Hannah Walker Is a Highly Sensitive Person
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Jane Walker argues that sensitivity is overlooked, dismissed and under-utilised, and argues that our society would be much better off if we embraced it instead.
Two years ago, Hannah gave a Four Thought talk about sensitivity, and received hundreds of emails from strangers, reaching out to tell her the same things: that sensitivity in our society isn’t considered useful, and that, well, ‘that’s just the system that we live in, isn’t it?’ Since then, Hannah has felt slightly ashamed at having started such a powerful conversation without offering a solution. And so in this programme she sets out to do just that. She’ll be talking to several of her correspondents, as well as a psychologist, a neuroscientist, an economist and even a newly-minted activist for the highly sensitive.
The programme focuses on highly sensitive people, but sensitivity is a spectrum and as Hannah hears more about it, she also finds out more about the benefits all of us can take from being in closer touch with our sensitive sides.
Producer: Giles Edwards
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| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm John Ronson, the author of So You've been publicly shamed. |
| 0:46.0 | This is my journey into the lives of the shamed, people ruined by a badly word to tweet or work faux par. |
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| 1:24.0 | podcast from BBC Radio 4. |
| 1:28.0 | What is Sensitivity Michael? |
| 1:32.0 | Sensitivity is the capacity to read your environment and usefully respond to it. |
| 1:40.0 | We have instinctively and society. |
| 1:44.0 | That's me, Hannah Jane Walker talking to a sock puppet in a show I made called highly sensitive. |
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