It happens to be true. We can brainwash ourselves into accomplishing great feats. What was that dumb book, The Secret, something like that? About imagining good things into your life? Take away the foo-foo and it works.
Keep telling yourself you will accomplish a thing, your brain starts working to make that happen, whether you believe it or not in the moment. It’s along the lines of talking someone up, granting them success they haven’t earned. Say someone has anger issues, telling them how nice it is that they’re always so calm makes them live up to that. Works a charm on kids.
Obviously you can’t win $1M on the lottery that way, no bending time and space, but you could say, “I’ll be in a position in life to make $1M.” Helps a lot if you write it down, lots, daily.
Always held that LSD works for so many mental issues it that it lets you take your brain out and rejigger it.
Yep. Aunt Wu. People would live to her prophecies (“She said I’ll be wearing red shoes when I meet my true love so I always wear red shoes”). But they would also let it be an excuse to not work at something for themselves ('I’m wearing red shoes so my part is done").
Nah.
Circular logic is a self referencing fallacy.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a thing that becomes true because of a belief.
If one believes that, it will almost certainly become true. This works for positive beliefs as well.
Telling yourself these things often leads to taking action to verify the belief.
Some real Aunt Wu energy.
It happens to be true. We can brainwash ourselves into accomplishing great feats. What was that dumb book, The Secret, something like that? About imagining good things into your life? Take away the foo-foo and it works.
Keep telling yourself you will accomplish a thing, your brain starts working to make that happen, whether you believe it or not in the moment. It’s along the lines of talking someone up, granting them success they haven’t earned. Say someone has anger issues, telling them how nice it is that they’re always so calm makes them live up to that. Works a charm on kids.
Obviously you can’t win $1M on the lottery that way, no bending time and space, but you could say, “I’ll be in a position in life to make $1M.” Helps a lot if you write it down, lots, daily.
Always held that LSD works for so many mental issues it that it lets you take your brain out and rejigger it.
Yep. Aunt Wu. People would live to her prophecies (“She said I’ll be wearing red shoes when I meet my true love so I always wear red shoes”). But they would also let it be an excuse to not work at something for themselves ('I’m wearing red shoes so my part is done").