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When experiences make us feel sufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blame in order to offer us a more positive view.
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180 |
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…when our freedom to make up our minds – or to change our minds once we’ve made them up – is threatened, we experience a strong impulse to reassert it…
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184 |
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The price we pay for our irrepressible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
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191 |
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One of the benefits of being a social and linguistic animal is that we can capitalize on the experience of others rather than trying to figure everything out for ourselves.
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213 |
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…your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.
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002 |
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The real problem is that we don’t appreciate our own ability to use attention to select and create truly satisfying experience.
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013 |
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…attention’s ability to change your brain and transform your experience isn’t limited to childhood but prevails throughout life.
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079 |
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…attention orders but also limits your experience, which can be tricky where big decisions are concerned.
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116 |
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No matter how trapped you may feel your current life, there are positive actions you can take and new experiences to be had.
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005 |
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…living to avoid failure is a real killer – it destroys opportunities for new experiences and growth.
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031 |
