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The Self-Conscious Writer: Worrying About What People Think Of You
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:02:14
Publish Date: 2016-02-23 06:32:09
Description: Joanna James-Lynn is a virtual assistant and the host of Introspectology. In this episode Neil Hughes interviews her about the childhood experiences that made her the way she is today, why introspection is useful, and how she thinks other people see her.   Topics Covered:    
  • The themes in Jo’s life so far and how she discovered them
  • Jo's experience of writing a novel as a child
  • Jo’s childhood interest in acting
  • What Jo was like as a child
  • Jo’s two memories of getting into trouble at school
  • The childhood holidays that had a huge impact on what Jo is like now
  • Why Jo took a photo of herself in the shower for a job application
  • How going to a rough school knocked Jo’s confidence
  • Why Jo needs to update her mental model of herself
  • Whether it’s better to have a higher or lower view of yourself than other people have of you
  • How Jo thinks other people see her and how much she cares about that
  • The excuses we come up with to explain away our successes
  • How the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to language learning
  • Jo’s hatred of French and love of German
  • What Jo would do if she had nine months and then nine hours left to live
  • Why Jo writes letters to the people she loves

 

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