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| Daily Dose of Reason - Psychology & Self-Improvement | ||||
| Monday, 27 October 2008 10:54 | ||||
 Magical thinking is a term associated with mental illness and schizophrenia. It
refers to the insane person's completely false and delusional beliefs that make
no logical sense whatsoever. But magical thinking is something a lot of people
suffer from, to a lesser degree. A woman marries a man with qualities she
dislikes, on the subtle assumption that he will change once they're married and
have a child. How will he change if he doesn't want to, and sees no need to do
so? Magically. The operative phrase here is "subtle assumption." An
introspective person must make his subtle assumptions conscious, and expose them
to the hard force of objective reality. This is the whole point of
self-awareness, therapy, life coaching and the like. The world is perishing from
an orgy of magical thinking grounded in subtle assumptions. Make sure you know
what yours are.
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