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    <title>Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Therapy”</title>
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    <description>Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. 
Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. 
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    <itunes:summary>Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. 
Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. 
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  <title>#96 (Bonus) - On the Limits of Introspection</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode we explore various themes surrounding personal growth, parenting, therapy, and the complexities of introspection. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Happy Christmas and Merry Festivus y'all! Today we're releasing a patreon episode, as both of us are away on vacation with the family for the holidays. In this episode we have a meandering discussion about parenting, Robert Kegan's four stages of development, the limits of introspection, and relationship counseling. &lt;/p&gt;

We discuss

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advice for new fathers &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vaden comes out to the world (about snowboarding)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Kegan's four stages of development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The limits of introspection &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Countertransference&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The show Couples Therapy with Dr. Orna Guralnik
# Socials&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Become a patreon subscriber &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations &lt;a href="https://ko-fi.com/increments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click dem like buttons on &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Introspect a little, and tell us why you haven't signed up to our Patreon feed over at  &lt;a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;incrementspodcast@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
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  <itunes:keywords>introspection, therapy, self-identity, psychological development, parenting, countertransference </itunes:keywords>
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<h1>We discuss</h1>

<ul>
<li>Advice for new fathers </li>
<li>Vaden comes out to the world (about snowboarding)</li>
<li>Robert Kegan&#39;s four stages of development</li>
<li>The limits of introspection </li>
<li>Countertransference</li>
<li>The show Couples Therapy with Dr. Orna Guralnik
# Socials</li>
<li>Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani</li>
<li>Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link</li>
<li>Become a patreon subscriber <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations <a href="https://ko-fi.com/increments" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li>
<li>Click dem like buttons on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ" rel="nofollow">youtube</a></li>
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<p>Introspect a little, and tell us why you haven&#39;t signed up to our Patreon feed over at  <a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">incrementspodcast@gmail.com</a> </p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments">Support Increments</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Happy Christmas and Merry Festivus y&#39;all! Today we&#39;re releasing a patreon episode, as both of us are away on vacation with the family for the holidays. In this episode we have a meandering discussion about parenting, Robert Kegan&#39;s four stages of development, the limits of introspection, and relationship counseling. </p>

<h1>We discuss</h1>

<ul>
<li>Advice for new fathers </li>
<li>Vaden comes out to the world (about snowboarding)</li>
<li>Robert Kegan&#39;s four stages of development</li>
<li>The limits of introspection </li>
<li>Countertransference</li>
<li>The show Couples Therapy with Dr. Orna Guralnik
# Socials</li>
<li>Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani</li>
<li>Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link</li>
<li>Become a patreon subscriber <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations <a href="https://ko-fi.com/increments" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li>
<li>Click dem like buttons on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ" rel="nofollow">youtube</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Introspect a little, and tell us why you haven&#39;t signed up to our Patreon feed over at  <a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">incrementspodcast@gmail.com</a> </p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments">Support Increments</a></p>]]>
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