Cognitive Dissonance & the word “AND”

So often in life we think of things in black and white. This person is good and this person is bad. This event is unfortunate, but this event is a blessing. This emotions is negative, while this emotion is positive. And truth be told, our brains are wired to keep things in these more simplistic…

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The Self-Fulling Prophecy

The Self-Fulling Prophecy:  You Determine Your Own Potential   In life, your “I am” statements are the most important self-talk statements that we have. Similar to Henry Ford’s quote (“Whether you say you can or you can’t, you’re right”), we tend to either live up to, or down to, the expectations we set for of…

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