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Moment 86 - How To Turn Your Fear Into Fuel: James Smith

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Can You Really Lies to Yourself?

I don't think we should ever lie to ourselves, but we should at least turn the dial towards optimism because we are inherently pessimistic with our biases. It doesn't have to be a lie as it could be even just a change in narrative. So I remember so many times throughout my life, just before he was about to go on a date with a stranger, which I found incredibly daunting. But all you need to do is change that, say, what if this is the best day I'll ever go on? That's all I'm saying. The placebo effect stuff can work. Even in that operation, they didn't know they were being lied to in that, in those two control

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