why some conversations rearrange your brain - by maja

how the right questions unlock hidden selves

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anaïs Nin A Glimpse Beyond the Frame I was walking along the beach with a friend recently, one of the most emotionally articulate people I know, when he told me his friends used to call him a robot. He said that for years, until very recently, he found it impossible to recognise his own feelings. I was stunned. This didn’t match anything I thought I knew about him. Yet it was a version that had existed the entire time quietly, out of view, but I’d never imagined it. That gap between the person I knew…

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