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"If you focus on positives you will be happier and more successful. If you focus on the negative you will be unhappier."
The Truth:
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"IQ doesn’t matter, it’s all about how you understand and get along with people."
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"Most meaning of human communication is nonverbal, so you can forget about the actual words."
The Truth:
This is what, in a nutshell, the Mehrabian study tells us:
"When it comes to feelings and atittudes, we get most of our cues of the speaker’s i...
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Once the ratio hit about 11 to 1, positive emotions began doing more harm than good. Beyond that balance of positive-to-negative, Life becomes a festival of Panglossian cluelessness, where self-delusion suffocates self-improvement.
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"A survey of Yale’s class of 1953 found out that people who wrote down their goals out-earned all the rest by several orders of magnitude."
The Truth:
Some people looked for the source of this study.
And there was none.
Finally,
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"The brain can rewire and change itself, and that means that you can learn anything."
The Self-Help Lie:
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"To feel better and live fully, you must let out all negative emotions."
The Truth:
There is plenty of evidence that venting your anger actually only makes you more angry and aggressive and increases the negative consequences of anger.
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"If you want to become world-class good all you need to do is put in 10,000 hours."
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Violence ensues when people feel that their favorable views of themselves are threatened or disputed by others.
As a result, people whose self-esteem is high but lacks a firm basis in genuine accomplishment are especially prone ...
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"Repeat yourself a mantra and you will eventually come to believe it and embody it."
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"We have found that merely repeating positive statements to yourself does not raise ...
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"You become what you think of. Force yourself to think positive and you’re good."
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"To be happy, you just need to smile."
The Lie:
This was actually backed by a famous study originally called in psychology the “facial feedback hypothesis” (
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"The more you visualize yourself winning, the closer you get to actually winning."
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"The more confident and the higher your self esteem, the better off you are."
The Truth:
That’s not wholly wrong. High self-esteem is good.
But only if accompanied by a
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"If you think often enough and with enough conviction about what you want you can attract it in your life."
The Truth:
From a psychological perspective, this notion has some merit but there is
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