Have you ever spent hours crafting the perfect email, rehearsing what you’d say before a hard conversation, or replaying an interaction trying to figure out how you came across? Most of us do this more than we’d like to admit. And here’s what research shows: that effort — all that energy spent managing how others see us — is one of the main things getting between us and the connection we want.

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we rediscover, reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Jennifer Crocker, Emerita Professor of Social Psychology at The Ohio State University to talk about why our efforts to manage other’s perception of us is misspent, and what we can do instead.

Check out Jenny’s Substack “The Ego Equation” https://theegoequation.substack.com/

Information about Jenny: https://psychology.osu.edu/people/crocker.37

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