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“‘It turns out that we can find evidence for whatever hypothesis we entertain,’ she continued. ‘So if you ask about your thoughts… What’s wrong with them, how bad they are… you can easily find evidence. You can just as easily though find evidence for the opposite. And if you were more mindful, you’d probably do both.’

“My only rule of thumb when it comes to crafting challenges is to use the Why? What if? How? questions … to first tell yourself a happy story of what your world looks like in the future if your problem goes away entirely, then working backward (how did you go about solving it?) to ensure that story gets told.”

Intrigued at how the human mind is so fluid yet hard-wired at the same time