How to forgive yourself

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the gray area. My guest today is our returning champion. Myesha Cherry, she's uh a previous guest on the show and she has kindly decided to return. Um, she is a professor of philosophy at UC Riverside, where she studies, among other things, the moral psychology of uh anger, empathy, forgiveness, which we're going to talk a little bit about today.

Uh That is how I describe who you are and what you do. How do you describe who you are and what you do when you're at those uh fancy philosophy parties? No, I'm I'm a I'm a philosopher. Um I not only do it for a living, but it's just who I am.

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