This episode is the story of Pygmalion as a metaphor for how we change to be accepted by others and how sometimes, when we love another, we don’t love them in as must as we love the projection of our own ideals onto them.
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00:00 – Introduction 00:40 – The story of Pygmalion 07:10 – How we adopt a persona for others 08:41 – How we project our ideals onto others 09:41 – How we are both persona and projector 11:47 – Possible solution: cutting the strings of our ideals
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