You're Not the Boss of Me!

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Whether in your personal life or at work, you've probably experienced what it’s like to have people reject your requests. To be told that what you want is unfair, or heavy-handed. And you've likely been in the opposite position as well — pushing back against requests that step on your freedom. This week, we talk to psychologist Benjamin Rosenberg about how we respond to infringements on our sense of autonomy, and how we can avoid sparking this resistance in our interactions with other people.

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by T-Mobile for Business.
0:04.1	This is Hidden Brain.
0:05.3	I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:07.6	As we make our way through life, all of us
0:09.9	have access to a rich repository of wisdom. This storehouse of knowledge can help us make better
0:16.8	decisions, cultivate closer relationships, and enhance the quality of our work. It can help us be better part of our work.
0:23.8	It can help us be better partners and parents,
0:26.4	better artists and writers, better entrepreneurs and leaders.
0:38.0	How do we tap into this deep well of insight? We need to listen to others who know more than us
0:41.0	and to learn from those who see more clearly than we do.
0:44.0	Whether it's a veteran member of our profession,
0:48.0	a seasoned parent or grandparent,
0:50.0	or a couple with decades of marriage behind them, other people can provide us with tools,
0:55.8	expertise and insight, incalculably valuable assets in any life.
1:07.1	So why is it, given all the wisdom we have within easy reach, we so often resist or reject what other people have to tell us. This week on Hidden Brain, the curious psychological tendency that keeps us from
1:18.0	acquiring all the knowledge available to us and how we can open ourselves to learn from others. All over the world people want to be free. Individual autonomy is especially prized in a country like the United States.
1:49.0	Who decides what you study in college? You do. Who decides who you marry or where you live? You do. Who decides
1:57.3	what food you eat, what movies you watch, what songs you listen to? You do, you do, you do.
2:05.3	At Dominican University in California, psychologist Benjamin Rosenberg studies how people
2:10.6	respond to real and imagined infringements on their sense of autonomy.
2:15.9	Ben Rosenberg, welcome to Hidden Brain.
2:18.5	Thanks so much for having me.
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