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Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change. She has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She writes a Substack on personality change.
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