Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Carla Lowenthal.

Okay, y'all, so tell me this.

Do you think chickens have personalities?

Using chickens, since I call you all my chickens.

I bet if you've ever owned chickens, you think that they do.

Humans are so obsessed with the idea of personalities that we project personalities

onto animals, pets, even household objects.

Many of us are known to say something like, oh, my computer just stopped.

I don't know, it just gets difficult and I have to restart it.

Or we'll take something into your repair and we'll say, oh, of course now that there

are a pair of persons looking at it, it's working fine.

Right?

We're obsessed with the idea of personality.

And people have been coming up with theories about why we are the way we are since probably

time immemorial.

Just among modern personality theories, there's a whole bunch that include dispositional,

which is like your traits.

Right?

Psychodynamic has to do with the psychological dynamics in the family, humanistic, biological,

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