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Why do you do the things you do? Hosted by American musician and writer, Dessa, Deeply Human investigates the human experience with rigor, humor, intimate stories, and the occasional spit take. 

Assembling brilliant minds from around the world--from philosophers to anthropologists, neuroscientists to historians--you will be left with a fuller understanding of your own behavior, and a more charitable explanation of other people's too.

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Deeply Human: Deeply Human: Pain

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13/11/2021 GMT

Pain

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Why hurting might not be so bad for you after all

Why hurting might not be so bad for you after all.

Hurting, pain and suffering might just be some of the most important things that make you who you are. That pain, though, may be almost invisible to those around you. 

Suffering is often private and difficult to discuss. You can’t hold your pain up to the light for someone else to examine or drape it around their shoulders to see how it might fit. Yet our experience of pain can change the way we think about ourselves and others. 

In an effort to understand how suffering works, Dessa gets burned — literally — and talks pain scales, placebos and the grade school game of sticking gum wrappers to your forehead. 

(Image: Child with plaster on knee, Credit: Getty Images)

Deeply Human: Deeply Human

In Deeply Human, Dessa Darling explores why you do what you do.

Deeply Human explores “why you do what you do” and offers a deep dive into the psychology, biology, and anthropological explanations of our common traits in ways which will make you think again about the way you think.

The host is American singer and writer, Dessa Darling. 
 
These programmes are anchored in her experience discovering the details of her own thoughts and actions. The propositions are simple – the answers are not, but the process is intimate and absorbing and adventurous.

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