• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    A byproduct of self help hokum. Most people who have difficulties in life relating to their “success” are told to visualize their goals, and magically they’ll achieve themselves somehow. They never actually say how to summon the executive function necessary in order to perform the tasks to achieve the goals. That would result in too many middle class people.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve also heard it described by the Puzzle in a Thunderstorm gang as someone being so blind and unwilling to acknowledge their privilege that they claim everything good that happens to them is literal magic. Their problems can be solved by social safety nets and coincidence, but get attributed to their “positive thinking” altering the fabric of reality to benefit them.