The affirmations movement rests on rare winners — Churchill, Schwarzenegger, Rockefeller — whose bold predictions came true. But for each of those, ten thousand delusionals made the same declarations and ended up nowhere. Survivorship bias makes optimism look like a functional strategy when it's really just a filter that only shows you the people who got lucky.
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