Dr. Ben Rein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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On the other hand, what happens when you do overcome that barrier and you befriend someone who's very different is your brain realizes, oh, wait a minute.
The people who I've been afraid of and not trusting are actually, they can be my allies.
And I think that is a powerful kind of revelation that can be really like therapeutic.
I have friends who are
completely different from me politically and in many other ways, you know, culturally.
And I love those people.
They're amazing.
We don't have to really trick anything.
We just have to like think about it differently.
I think what happens is when you identify someone as the other, it kind of just like casts a huge shadow over everything that makes them who they are.
But the truth is underneath that shadow are a lot of things that make them just like you.
Instead of putting something like political identity at the very top, we can shuffle that down a bit and think about what else do they have that's like us.
There's this concept of self-other overlap that I talk about a lot in the book because it has a lot of influence over how we relate to people.
So you picture yourself as one circle in a Venn diagram, another person as another circle.
How much of the overlap is there?
And if you take politics completely out of it and you think about, okay, well, this person lives in the same neighborhood as me or the same city as me.
They like the same sports team as me.
They probably listen to the same music as me.
Oh, they have a dog.
I see them walking their dog often.
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