Danny Miranda
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And so I think what a lot of people need to do is figure out the games they need to play in the meantime. And so experts at things don't really have more impulse control. I think it's a fallacy. They figure out more ways to win in the meantime.
And so I think what a lot of people need to do is figure out the games they need to play in the meantime. And so experts at things don't really have more impulse control. I think it's a fallacy. They figure out more ways to win in the meantime.
And so I think what a lot of people need to do is figure out the games they need to play in the meantime. And so experts at things don't really have more impulse control. I think it's a fallacy. They figure out more ways to win in the meantime.
Just for the audience sake, how have we spent time together, Danny?
Just for the audience sake, how have we spent time together, Danny?
Just for the audience sake, how have we spent time together, Danny?
Yeah, sure. So I, like many young men, had lots of angst and felt like the world was not fair and that I had not gotten what I, quote, deserved and that I thought that my parents could have done a better job of parenting me in general. And I resented them for that.
Yeah, sure. So I, like many young men, had lots of angst and felt like the world was not fair and that I had not gotten what I, quote, deserved and that I thought that my parents could have done a better job of parenting me in general. And I resented them for that.
Yeah, sure. So I, like many young men, had lots of angst and felt like the world was not fair and that I had not gotten what I, quote, deserved and that I thought that my parents could have done a better job of parenting me in general. And I resented them for that.
um and so i had an intro to psychology course and the assignment was as you said pick somebody who had any pathology that we had cut you know studied over the whole semester and then write the story from their perspective of how that pathology might have developed right and um what happened through the course of going through that assignment was not what i expected uh because as i went through and i picked my mother and she's you know she's been public about
um and so i had an intro to psychology course and the assignment was as you said pick somebody who had any pathology that we had cut you know studied over the whole semester and then write the story from their perspective of how that pathology might have developed right and um what happened through the course of going through that assignment was not what i expected uh because as i went through and i picked my mother and she's you know she's been public about
um and so i had an intro to psychology course and the assignment was as you said pick somebody who had any pathology that we had cut you know studied over the whole semester and then write the story from their perspective of how that pathology might have developed right and um what happened through the course of going through that assignment was not what i expected uh because as i went through and i picked my mother and she's you know she's been public about
suffering from, you know, depression and ADD and things like that. That I picked that and in kind of inhabiting her shoes as an immigrant who came here not speaking the language and having, you know, a Serbian father who is very authoritative, rightfully so. We're talking 1950s. You know what I mean? Just different times. And
suffering from, you know, depression and ADD and things like that. That I picked that and in kind of inhabiting her shoes as an immigrant who came here not speaking the language and having, you know, a Serbian father who is very authoritative, rightfully so. We're talking 1950s. You know what I mean? Just different times. And
suffering from, you know, depression and ADD and things like that. That I picked that and in kind of inhabiting her shoes as an immigrant who came here not speaking the language and having, you know, a Serbian father who is very authoritative, rightfully so. We're talking 1950s. You know what I mean? Just different times. And
what her upbringing must have been like and having a split life between being an American at school and, you know, getting beat up for not being able to speak because back then it was almost, uh, expected and, and normalized to beat up the foreigners, um, to, to, you know, then being the, the first person to, you know, first female class at Hopkins, um, to be in that, um, as a doctor.
what her upbringing must have been like and having a split life between being an American at school and, you know, getting beat up for not being able to speak because back then it was almost, uh, expected and, and normalized to beat up the foreigners, um, to, to, you know, then being the, the first person to, you know, first female class at Hopkins, um, to be in that, um, as a doctor.
what her upbringing must have been like and having a split life between being an American at school and, you know, getting beat up for not being able to speak because back then it was almost, uh, expected and, and normalized to beat up the foreigners, um, to, to, you know, then being the, the first person to, you know, first female class at Hopkins, um, to be in that, um, as a doctor.
And so thinking about that trajectory, I all of a sudden realized the amount of pressures that she had put on externally, that other people had put on her externally throughout her whole life. And what happened was I felt like I understood. And Blaise Pascal, who's Pascal's triangle, some people remember him, he was a mathematician and also a theologian.
And so thinking about that trajectory, I all of a sudden realized the amount of pressures that she had put on externally, that other people had put on her externally throughout her whole life. And what happened was I felt like I understood. And Blaise Pascal, who's Pascal's triangle, some people remember him, he was a mathematician and also a theologian.