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    Power & Powerlessness: Escaping the power paradox

    en-usMarch 12, 2022
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    About this Episode

    What happens to us when we get pumped up on power or deflated by powerlessness?  Does power corrupt us or does it set us free? And how can we escape, what psychologist  Dacher Keltner calls, the "power paradox"?

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