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Mitch Horowitz

Team Human

CHAPTER

The Potential Cruelty of Positive Thinking

I would even call it positive thinking. It becomes a great defense of intentional thinking, thinking intended to do stuff. Emotions run on their own track and they're incredibly powerful. So asking someone to condition their emotions is almost as the impossible. In many cases, I've wondered whether the clearly defined intention, wish, determination, whatever it call it itself may be enough to trigger those perceptual agencies. And so that's something I'm experimenting with.

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