The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

By Farnam Street

#199 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire (2019)

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Published July 22, 2024 3:00am

Few episodes in The Knowledge Project's nine-year history have impacted people's relationships and lives more than when Esther Perel shared her infinite wisdom for the first time in 2019.

Shane and Esther discuss how the stories you tell yourself shape how you see the world (and what to do about that), the important conversations to have at the beginning of a relationship, the most common arguments couples have and how to prevent them, what to say to a partner if the relationship isn't working out, the relationship between desire, love, and pleasure, and so much more. Plus, the...

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