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Psychology Today Magazine
September 2020
Resilience is in human nature. Persevering through adversity is not a bug in our software but a feature of the hardware.
From a sense of humor to a sense of happiness and from “high-arousal” words to “untranslatables,” culture dictates how we speak about and experience the universe, far more than we realize.
A guide to people who live in their own soap opera.
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