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The Virtual Couch

Can You Truly Fake It Until You Make It? Putting The Expectation Effect in Action!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Years ago a fascinating study was conducted where two groups of people were randomly assigned some rats. One group was told that their rats were “Maze-bright,” meaning that their rats had been bread to figure out how to get throu...

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, I'm going to talk about whether or not you can in fact fake it until you make it.

0:06.7

And more specifically, what effect does an expectation have on results?

0:10.9

Should fake it until you make it be viewed more as believe it until you become it?

0:15.1

And what role do you as a parent, coach, teacher, or leader have in projecting healthy expectations on people you

0:22.6

might have influence over. That and plenty more coming up on today's episode of the virtual

0:27.1

couch.

0:37.3

Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 225 of the virtual couch.

0:42.1

I am your host, Tony Overbay.

0:43.4

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, writer-speaker,

0:47.4

husband, father of four, ultra marathon runner, and creator of the Pathback, an online

0:51.4

pornography recovery program that is helping people reclaim their

0:54.6

lives from the harmful effects of pornography. If you or anyone that you know is struggling to put

0:58.7

pornography behind them once and for all, and trust me, it can be done in a strength-based,

1:02.6

hold the shame, become the person you always wanted to be way. Then please head over to

1:06.4

pathback recovery.com. And there you will find a short ebook that describes five common mistakes that

1:11.0

people make when trying to put pornography behind them once and for all. Again, that's pathback

1:14.8

recovery.com. And I love getting your questions. I love getting comments. I love getting feedback.

1:20.9

And you can send any of that to contact at tonyoverbay.com or if you stop by my website,

1:27.4

tonyoverbay.com, there's a contact form. So fill that out and you can send me

1:32.2

questions, comments, if you would like to be a guest on the virtual couch, if you

1:35.7

would like for me to be a guest on your podcast or come speak to your group or

1:40.4

training or that sort of thing, please reach out again Again, contact at tonyoverbay.com.

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