Alison Wood Brooks

Both. Because it's like having a mirror, you actually get a better sense of what you're good at and not good at because you have this example of someone who is actually slightly better or slightly worse than you at certain tasks. As a psychologist now, for a long time, I would have loved to believe that everything is malleable.

Both. Because it's like having a mirror, you actually get a better sense of what you're good at and not good at because you have this example of someone who is actually slightly better or slightly worse than you at certain tasks. As a psychologist now, for a long time, I would have loved to believe that everything is malleable.

Both. Because it's like having a mirror, you actually get a better sense of what you're good at and not good at because you have this example of someone who is actually slightly better or slightly worse than you at certain tasks. As a psychologist now, for a long time, I would have loved to believe that everything is malleable.

Everything is trainable and learnable and you can change so much about yourself. But I think being an identical twin does highlight how many things are outside your control and genetic. Our hands, if you laid them side by side, I could not tell them apart. Our feet, our voices.

Everything is trainable and learnable and you can change so much about yourself. But I think being an identical twin does highlight how many things are outside your control and genetic. Our hands, if you laid them side by side, I could not tell them apart. Our feet, our voices.

Everything is trainable and learnable and you can change so much about yourself. But I think being an identical twin does highlight how many things are outside your control and genetic. Our hands, if you laid them side by side, I could not tell them apart. Our feet, our voices.

I still to this day answer the phone, hello, this is Allison, because I can't even tell the difference in our voices just on the phone. There are things about our bodies and about your mind that you don't have control over. And then I had my own kids. They each come out so different. And you're like, holy cow, nature's really a thing.

I still to this day answer the phone, hello, this is Allison, because I can't even tell the difference in our voices just on the phone. There are things about our bodies and about your mind that you don't have control over. And then I had my own kids. They each come out so different. And you're like, holy cow, nature's really a thing.

I still to this day answer the phone, hello, this is Allison, because I can't even tell the difference in our voices just on the phone. There are things about our bodies and about your mind that you don't have control over. And then I had my own kids. They each come out so different. And you're like, holy cow, nature's really a thing.

Psychology was my major, and I got a minor. They called a certificate there in finance, not because I was interested in finance per se, but because I was really interested in economics and this judgment and decision-making behavioral science stuff.

Psychology was my major, and I got a minor. They called a certificate there in finance, not because I was interested in finance per se, but because I was really interested in economics and this judgment and decision-making behavioral science stuff.

Psychology was my major, and I got a minor. They called a certificate there in finance, not because I was interested in finance per se, but because I was really interested in economics and this judgment and decision-making behavioral science stuff.

In this book and in my course and in conversation in general, there's so much mind reading that you have to do of all people. We're constantly trying to figure out what are they thinking about? How are they feeling? Are they interested in this right now? Are they bored? There's this tremendous level of mind reading. I think

In this book and in my course and in conversation in general, there's so much mind reading that you have to do of all people. We're constantly trying to figure out what are they thinking about? How are they feeling? Are they interested in this right now? Are they bored? There's this tremendous level of mind reading. I think

In this book and in my course and in conversation in general, there's so much mind reading that you have to do of all people. We're constantly trying to figure out what are they thinking about? How are they feeling? Are they interested in this right now? Are they bored? There's this tremendous level of mind reading. I think

twins get better at that with each other this is a hypothesis this has not been studied but possibly they get better at it with other people as well because they just had more practice doing it their whole development their whole childhood but i think that's where the stereotype comes from with twins is that they can read each other's minds they've spent a lot of time together they know each other really really well and their brains work similarly see

twins get better at that with each other this is a hypothesis this has not been studied but possibly they get better at it with other people as well because they just had more practice doing it their whole development their whole childhood but i think that's where the stereotype comes from with twins is that they can read each other's minds they've spent a lot of time together they know each other really really well and their brains work similarly see

twins get better at that with each other this is a hypothesis this has not been studied but possibly they get better at it with other people as well because they just had more practice doing it their whole development their whole childhood but i think that's where the stereotype comes from with twins is that they can read each other's minds they've spent a lot of time together they know each other really really well and their brains work similarly see

Totally. And what it has shown me is even though we're so good at predicting what the other person will do, we have this tight knit, which psychologists would call shared reality. You're better at predicting what your twin's going to do than probably anyone else in the world. And I still don't know exactly what she's thinking and feeling. Yeah.

Totally. And what it has shown me is even though we're so good at predicting what the other person will do, we have this tight knit, which psychologists would call shared reality. You're better at predicting what your twin's going to do than probably anyone else in the world. And I still don't know exactly what she's thinking and feeling. Yeah.