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I'm Simon Sinick and I host a podcast called A Bit of Optimism.

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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that you can reshape a memory.

Particularly if you have had a negative experience in the past that continues to bother you to some degree,

you might be able to highlight a particular part of that memory that shows negative memory a little less bad. I am sure we have all

had experiences in our lives that haven't gone exactly how we wanted.

If we're not careful, these can scar pretty deeply.

For instance, I know someone who had a rough start to college and wound up needing to withdraw with failing grades.

Yikes, right?

This person was smart enough to go to college and had family members who were incredibly proud of them for doing so and then that happened.

The first story that comes to mind is failure.

But after some dark months this person decided to try again, with lots of

studying and organizational help, and she wound up doing okay. With some work she was able to reshape the original memory.

There is a difference between failing at something specific and being a failure. She was able to rewrite the

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