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Coach Yourself Through a Crisis

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Do It Silently, Not Out Loud

The bat man of fact is a technique used by psychologists to get kids to think about why they're doing something. In one condition, you might say, imagine your bat man and think about why bat man is working on this hard, difficult task. When you have kid think about themselves like a super hero, it turns out they perform better, they feel better. There's even some evidence that those techniques are most useful for the kids who have the most difficulty controlling their emotions.

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