You Are a Social Creation (with Dr. Brian Lowery)

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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You can expand yourself and your sense of the world in ways that will be surprising to you, stay curious, and take the time to understand the depth of those around you. Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University Dr. Brian Lowery (@Dr. Brian Lowery) is a social psychologist whose new book, Selfless: The Social Creation of You, presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential "self"—our selv...

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0:00.0	Coming up on the Mark Devine show, we believe they have value, have faith that they have
0:06.5	value, and we treat them as if they have value.
0:09.0	And that doesn't mean that money isn't real.
0:12.0	That's important.
0:13.3	It just means that the power it exerts comes from the way we engage with each other about
0:19.7	it.
0:20.7	That's the idea.
0:21.7	And it's the same idea for race and gender and all these other things that we could label
0:26.9	social constructions.
0:33.4	Hi, I'm Mark Devine, and this is the Mark Devine show.
0:36.1	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:37.8	On this show, I explore what it means to be fearless through the lens of the world's
0:40.9	most inspirational, compassionate, resilient, and thoughtful leaders.
0:44.1	I spoke to folks from all walks of life, motivational scientists, nutrition experts, peace
0:48.4	crusaders, and people really studying what it means to be selfless.
0:53.2	Like my guest today, Dr. Brian Lowry.
0:56.2	We're going to be talking with Brian about the social nature of self, creation of your
0:59.3	social identity, self, and freedom.
1:01.8	Dr. Lowry has a new book out called The Social Creation of You.
1:05.6	He's host of a podcast called Know What You See.
1:08.9	Brian is the Walter Kenneth Killpatrick professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
1:14.0	Brian, thank you so much for joining me today.
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