You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How well do we know ourselves? Maybe the better question to ask is how well can we truly know ourselves? Psychologist Tim Wilson says introspection only gets us so far, and that we often make important decisions in life and love for reasons we don't even realize. But he says there are some simple ways to improve our self-knowledge.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.4	From high school football coaches to career counsellors,
0:07.1	professional advice givers often have a simple mantra.
0:11.2	Look within.
0:14.5	You have the answers you've been searching for.
0:18.1	Ask yourself the important questions
0:20.6	and then listen to your inner voice.
0:26.0	Such advice is especially common
0:28.2	in countries with individualistic cultures,
0:31.1	such as the United States.
0:32.9	We believe our answers have to come from within
0:35.9	because each of us is a unique individual
0:38.8	on our own special journey.
0:40.7	We celebrate the idea of marching to our own drummer,
0:44.5	with disparaged people who follow the herd.
0:52.3	In recent years, however,
0:53.7	a variety of psychological research experiments
0:56.2	have raised serious questions about how well we know ourselves.
1:02.0	Some of these experiments raise profound questions
1:05.4	about how well we can know ourselves.
1:11.4	This is the second installment of our annual series,
1:14.5	U2.0, where we try to answer some of life's most profound questions
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