
252. Don’t Fetishize the Burps of Your Subconscious
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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We Value Things More When They're Ours
We give things disproportionate meaning and weight when they belong to us. We want more to give them up than we would ever pay to get them. And I think that we do this with our thoughts, right? Yes, it's partly that we want to believe that we're perceiving reality objectively because that's less scary to us. But also, we just think that because we had a thought, it's somehow real or valuable just because we came up with it"
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