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Part One: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Affirmations

A lot of people believe that the meaning of reality is open-ended and dictated by perception. Affirmations are a practice that's birthed by the new thought movement, which evolved from books like Think and Grow Rich in the early 1900s. The basic idea behind an affirmation is that if you regularly repeat what you are going, what you want to do, what you wanna have happen in your life, some sort of goal or dream,. And if you're extremely specific and extremely consistent about repeating it, then that will in some way influence the future.

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