How To Love Your Face (from Slate's How To!)
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\\nEarlier this year, our listener, Rell, nearly failed a promotion. Not because she was unprepared or unqualified, but because she didn\\u2019t maintain enough eye contact with the interviewers. Rell\\u2019s eye hasn\\u2019t been fully receiving information since she was born, a condition that\\u2019s outwardly visible and known colloquially as a \\u201clazy eye.\\u201d It\\u2019s beginning to affect her self-confidence and is this \\u201cugly thing [she] can\\u2019t let go of.\\u201d
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\\nOn this episode of How To!, host Carvell Wallace brings on Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright and author who wrote about her experience with Bell\\u2019s palsy in her recent book, "Smile: The Story of a Face." Sarah has some wonderful advice for letting go of your inner rage, making interactions with strangers less painful, and even finding people who light up your mirror neurons.
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