Reality is one honey badger. It don’t care. About you, about your thoughts, about your needs, about your beliefs. You can reject reality and substitute your own, but reality will roll on, eventually crushing you even as you refuse to dodge it. The best you can hope for is to play by reality’s rules and use them to your benefit.
Mark Crislip - Science-Based Medicine
Reality is one honey badger. It don’t care. About you, about your thoughts, about your needs, about your beliefs.
Reality cares about your beliefs.
People who don't believe in ego depletion don't get as much ego depleted as people who do believe in it.
People who believe that stress is unhealthy have a higher mortality when they have high stress than people who don't hold that belief.
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