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Permission to Change

Jenara Nerenberg

Dispatches from a bestselling author on the mind and behavior from a historical perspective, currently based between Asia and Europe. My family is multi faith, multi class, and multi racial. I wrote Divergent Mind (2020) and Trust Your Mind (2025).

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On airplanes, usually above the Indian Ocean, I gain perspective. Twenty years ago the scene on the seats next to me looked different. Staring eyes darting toward me, my curious eyes looking back. A couple of Australian tourists or a few Ja...

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Is Masking an Ethical Necessity?

Hi everyone — we had to move our first Divergent Series guest up a day so Shadi Hamid joins us in the morning! Tomorrow, Wednesday November 12th at 9am EST. Here is an updated free gift link as well.

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    Asia & Europe-based bestselling author & lecturer. History-informed chronicler of human nature. New book: Trust Your Mind. Cal/CNN/Harvard/FastCo.

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