179. Can You Really “Manifest” Success Through Positive Visualization?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Is there any scientific basis for the law of attraction? Are people who believe in “cosmic collaboration” more successful? And what happens when you write yourself a check for $10 million?

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0:00.0	These are people who are going to get scammed.
0:05.0	I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.0	Today on the show, can you use the law of attraction to manifest a better life?
0:16.0	I'm going to write myself a check for $10 billion and I'm going to be the most successful
0:21.0	comedic actor in the universe. Angela, I am excited by today's question and truthfully have no idea what direction this conversation with you will go.
0:41.0	Exciting, go ahead. Well, so here's to the journey we're about to walk.
0:46.0	It comes from anonymous who says, I've been coming across the idea of manifestation or law of attraction in a lot of self-help
0:55.4	podcasts and readings. I want to understand more on the psychology of these
0:59.7	ideas and do they actually work in real life?
1:03.0	Okay, so Mike, I think I know what manifest, actually I don't know what manifestation, the
1:10.0	law of attraction, or is this like positive thinking? I think so. The first time I was of
1:13.0	a law-of- attraction or? Is this like positive thinking? I think so.
1:14.0	The first time I was truly introduced to the idea of manifestation
1:18.0	came in, I don't know, 2006, there was this book that came out in this movie that came out called
1:25.2	The Secret.
1:26.2	Oh yeah.
1:27.2	Have you ever heard of this?
1:28.2	I have heard of it.
1:29.2	I know it was a wild bestseller like crazy just like publisher's dream right that like some
1:36.4	book written by I don't even know it wasn't a psychologist by training was just I
1:40.5	don't want to say just a person but like a mere mortal. A mere mortal.
1:44.0	A mere mortal.
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