Behind the Scenes Minis: Self-talk Hoax

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Holly and Tracy discuss the idea of autosuggestion and positive self-talk. Tracy shares her thoughts on writings about the Pompey stone.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.8	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.8	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.3	Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry.
0:18.9	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:21.0	We talked about Emile Kouet-suggestion this week.
0:24.5	Yeah, I had a lot of feelings.
0:28.3	I knew you would.
0:29.8	I also just thought there were a couple of fun quotes that I came across while researching.
0:35.3	Okay.
0:35.8	One was written by that biographer of Ku-ui that we mentioned, and it is the French point of view
0:42.8	criticizing the way Americans wrote about hypnosis.
0:47.1	Okay.
0:49.3	And he says, meanwhile, the ideas of the Nazi school had spread.
0:53.8	In America, they were being exploited and popularized with all the clap trap and noise that accompanies bluff.
1:00.7	And I just loved that.
1:01.8	I was like, yeah, that's true.
1:03.6	Because people were like hypnotism, it's magical.
1:06.2	And they were like, we are trying to do science.
1:08.0	You're messing it up.
1:08.8	You're making it harder.
1:10.2	Yeah.
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