Olga Khazan

CM 295: Olga Khazan on Changing Your Personality

If you think about it, your personality impacts how you approach your life. The choices you make, the risks you take, the relationships you have. Our personalities create a set of habits, automatic reactions that impact what we think, feel, and do. When we take on new roles, like becoming a manger or a parent,…

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CM 173: Katherine Kinzler on How Language Shapes Us

We recognize the biases we hold around race, class, and gender, but what about language? Katherine Kinzler, author of the book, How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do – and What It Says about You, explains, “The language you speak, and the accent or dialect you use to speak it, is…

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CM 160: Olga Khazan on the Upside of Being Weird

What if we transformed the word weird from an insult to a badge of honor? When we call someone “weird,” it’s rarely positive. Growing up as a self-described “weirdo,” Olga Khazan, author of the book, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, decided to explore the upside of being an outsider….

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