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10: Myths

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

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The Myth of Positive Thinking

I was huge. They've got their own section just for themselves. I mean, so they're brilliant Absolutely go to the sections particularly towards the end of the alphabet. Start there work backwards. That's always my advice. If you see a self-help book there's like there's a pack animals are publishing There's always a whole load of self-help books. You'll see in these books when psychologists have looked at that as a visualization technique It's not that it makes no difference It actively harms you What why? Well because what’s happening is the brain is going the mind is going all right. We think we can get things done by focusing on something and then doing

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