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What Happens When You Lack Self Awareness?

If you can't listen to your own inner voice, your own body, your own impulses - you end up listening to everyone else, and maybe, you even end up miserable.

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Ali Kriegsman
Apr 09, 2024
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I’ll never forget what it felt like to finish and finally put down Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire by Luke Burgis, who became an immediate “author crush” of mine back in 2021 when the book was r…

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