Harvesting Happiness Podcasts

From birth, our self is created by other people. We inherently carry intergenerational baggage from our ancestors, then the process of constructing our ‘self’ comes from feedback about who we are from the time, culture, and society we grow up in. Do we truly have any control over who we are and who we will become? To discover the social construction behind what we consider our sense of self, Positive Psychology Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with social psychologist, and the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University, Dr. Brian Lowery. Brian explains the premise of his book Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”, and describes the multidimensional facets of self. Dr. Brian Lowery — The Journey of Self-construction: ● What Brian means when he says the self is a social construction. [2:25] ● Making sense of ourselves and our stories. [6:21] ● In his book, Selfless, Brian imparts that humans can not be a self by themselves and that our worlds are smaller whe