“Even though you have made a rational choice – the best you could have made in the circumstance – you nonetheless experience the unpleasant emotional state of cognitive dissonance.” – Joel Cooper – Have you ever experienced a situation where...
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“I think of catastrophizing, or catastrophic thinking, as envisioning what you’d expect to happen in a horror movie. Your mind goes to that worst-possible-case scenario and plays it over and over again, which can trigger huge levels of anxiety.” –...
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“The first step in lasting persuasion or influence is to acknowledge that you can’t get a person to do something they don’t want to do — at least not in the long term and not without them regretting it later.”...
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