The Thousands of Ways We Fool Ourselves
About this episode
Judi Cohen explores the complexities of self-deception and the value of following examples over advice in the context of compassion and empathy.
I’m great at philosophizing and offering advice about how to be kinder, more compassionate, even wiser. But who am I fooling? My philosophy is theoretical, and honestly, on those topics, what’s anyone’s advice worth? Not much, because no one really wants to follow anyone else’s advice. But we all want to follow examples, especially the examples of people who know what to say, and do, and how, when someone is hurting, or scared, or hungry. Or at least I do. In the end I feel like it’s no...
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