Exactly, that's much more motivating than just sitting back and thinking "If only" while you worry your panties off.
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Poll: Is wishful thinking a powerful force that affects belief strongly? Is it powerful but doesn't affect actual real belief and is actually a form of self-delusion? This poll is closed. |
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Wishful thinking powerfully affects actual beliefs. | 2 | 22.22% | |
Wishful thinking is a myth and doesn't affect beliefs at all, it isn't even a form of self-delusion or self-deception. | 0 | 0% | |
Wishful thinking doesn't effect actual belief but makes you think it does, you go into self-denial when you succumb to it and it's a form of self-delusion and deceiving yourself. | 1 | 11.11% | |
Turtle thinks too much xD But I like these threads ^__^ | 4 | 44.44% | |
You're posting too many polls and threads today! Stop it now you uninteresting annoying person! | 2 | 22.22% | |
Total | 9 vote(s) | 100% |
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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?
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I think it depends on how conscious you are that your wishes don't affect reality on their own.
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Or how much you refuse to pretend otherwise even if you know deep down that your wishes are impossible bullshit.
I think the kind of wishful thinking I keep talking about, that kind where one is deluding oneself... ...I think it's all a matter of individuals who use wishful thinking as a form of escapism. |
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