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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

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Can Short Cuts Be Useful in Psychotherapy?

Most problems we try to solve lately lie somewhere in the middle where a short cut may help, but the attainment of said short cut is itself a lot of work. I'm learning the cello at the moment, and i was desperate for some short cuts to be able to play the bark sweets, which is my mate goal. So i took to susy olbach, who's a psychologist, and she had this nice way of describing some of problems that people are facing. You now, it's hard to learn a language, it's even harder to unlearn a language. Imagine trying to unlearn english. Some people, when you're coming to therapy, have got such intrenched

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