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Simon and Lee talk about how well humans know ourselves versus how well we are known by others (with a diversion into Lee scaring someone in a toilet).

Some other details from the episode: BST does not stand for Big Sexy Time, the difference between falling and having a fall, manifesting a fall, Lee crashing his bicycle in Lisbon, Dr. David Corbet (@corbetron) is our Ask Jeeves for medical information, dreamcatchers, having a dance vs dancing (for 55 year olds), the articular surface of the patella has a poor blood supply, arthroscopies, Lee getting norovirus, anaesthetics (sleepy drugs), past-future hedonic preferences, some of our best friends read The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (by Bessel van der Kolk), how nice it was in Malta, floods in Lisbon, Guy Claxton's Intelligence in the Flesh and inferred self-knowledge, being predictable, Lee singing in the toilets at work, the foyer of a toilet, having a gong in a toilet antechamber, man doing a little scream, singing in the toilet is the moral of the story, Lee's sub-routines at work, meeting someone for the first time with their partner, anyone who has not met Bob yet, not wanting to be predictable vs the reassurance of someone's presence, patterns of behaviour vs being more responsive, dog whistling, stability, solidity and security, stability vs routine, construction of the image of someone at the beginning of a relationship (and projection), being a re-homed dalmation, chaos that is not unsettling, Lee met Simon's frolleague (Kathryn) at the conference in Malta.

Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods: http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/93850

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.

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