Has any one of you actually seen the LAW OF ATTRACTION work in your life?

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The law of attraction is nothing more than magical thinking bolstered by confirmation bias and selection bias. While there is some scientific evidence that dispositional optimism can help us avoid self-sabotaging behaviors, there is no evidence that it can make us better at something than we already are or bring about some particular state of affairs that we are hoping for. There’s also no evidence for the pseudotheories about positive and negative energy that underlie the whole idea. It is also important to note that too much positive thinking can be bad for us. Hope must be tempered by realism or else we run a significant risk of sabotaging ourselves due to overconfidence. There’s an interesting study about all this here.

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