Shankar Vedantam

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Mark Berman is a psychologist at the University of Chicago.

He is the author of Nature and the Mind, the Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being.

Mark, thank you so much for joining me again today on Hidden Brain.

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This is Hidden Brain.

I'm Shankar Vedantam.

Many of us know what it feels like to be overlooked.

The school we would love to study at doesn't love us back.

We get passed over for a job or a promotion.

When we ask to try our hand at something, we're told no.

Now, sometimes rejection might be a true reflection of our abilities.

We can't run fast enough to make the team or remember all the facts needed to get through medical school.