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Difficult conversations part 5 – getting over ourselves

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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

In the latest episode Kay Scorah and I talk about the idea of “getting over ourselves”. That can often sound like a rude instruction, but it’s possible to frame all learning as a process of leaving behind old ideas of who we are – ideas to which we can get rather attached.

We talk a bit about Otto Rank and I say more about him in this old post.

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