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SUMMARY:🧠🪞 Who Are You\, Really? - are we one self or many?
DESCRIPTION:Podcast discussion - listen beforehand.\n\nShort summary\n\nMos
 t people talk about the self like it is one clean thing. I know who I am. 
 That is just me. I’m not that kind of person. I’ve always been this wa
 y. Convenient. Also suspicious. This Hidden Brain episode\, “Who Are You
 \, Really?”\, gives us a good doorway into a much messier question: Are 
 we one stable self\, or a collection of different selves that show up depe
 nding on memory\, mood\, relationships\, fear\, pressure\, and context? Be
 cause most of us know the feeling. You are one person with your family. An
 other with friends. Another at work. Another when you’re insecure. Anoth
 er when you feel powerful. Another when nobody is watching. So which one i
 s real? Maybe all of them. Maybe none of them. Maybe the self is less like
  a statue and more like a committee that keeps pretending it has one spoke
 sperson. That’s the room I want. Not personality-test talk. Not astrolog
 y with better branding. Not everyone announcing their “type” like it e
 xplains a human life. A real conversation about identity\, memory\, contra
 diction\, and whether becoming yourself means discovering one true core or
  learning how to live with the many versions of you.\n\nA few questions al
 ready sitting in my head\n\n• Are you one self\, or a group of selves th
 at take turns running the room?\n• Which version of you feels most real:
  the private one\, the social one\, the wounded one\, or the one under pre
 ssure?\n• Do people change\, or do different parts of them just get more
  space?\n• Is consistency a sign of integrity\, or just a story we tell 
 because contradiction makes us nervous?\n• How much of identity is memor
 y\, and how much is performance?\n• When someone says ‘that’s not wh
 o I am\,’ are they telling the truth or protecting an image?\n• What p
 art of yourself do other people seem to know before you do?\n\nHow the mor
 ning will go\n\nCome having listened to the episode beforehand. You do not
  need to master every section. Focus on the parts that interest you most\,
  or the part that made you argue with the episode in your head. We’ll st
 art with one question: “What is one version of yourself that only appear
 s in certain situations?” Then we’ll stay close to the episode and let
  the bigger conversation open up: identity\, memory\, personality\, change
 \, self-deception\, and the strange feeling of being both familiar and mys
 terious to yourself. Not therapy. Not forced vulnerability. Not everyone t
 urning the room into a personal brand audit. A grounded conversation about
  what we mean when we say “me.”\n\nListening\n\nHidden Brain - “Who 
 Are You\, Really?” Official source page: External resource\n\nWhen and w
 here\n\n🗓️ Date: Sunday\, September 13th\, 2026 🕒 Time: 11:00 AM -
  1:00 PM 📍 Location: Vancouver Central Library 350 West Georgia Street\
 , Vancouver\, BC Meeting point: 9th floor\, left of the elevators when you
  exit. Cap: 12 Small room on purpose. Identity gets more interesting when 
 people can actually hear the contradictions.\n\nWeekend RSVP policy\n\nOur
  weekend events regularly have waitlists of 20 or more people. If you can 
 no longer attend\, please update your RSVP by Thursday evening. This gives
  someone on the waitlist enough time to make plans and take the available 
 spot. Members who remain marked as attending and miss two events without c
 ancelling may be removed from the group. Emergencies happen\; if something
  unavoidable comes up\, please message the organizer. Keeping your RSVP ac
 curate helps limited seats go to people who can actually attend.
URL:https://vancouvercuriosityclub.com/events/who-are-you-really-are-we-one
 -self-or-many-c68c98cdb1b9-be0edf48
LOCATION:Vancouver Central Library — 350 West Georgia Street — 9th floo
 r
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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