Émile Coué and Autosuggestion

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Émile Coué genuinely seems to have wanted to help people by teaching them how to plant helpful directives in their subconscious minds. Whether he was effective is something that's still debated.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
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0:04.8	No gloss, no filter.
0:07.8	Just stories.
0:09.5	Spoken without fear.
0:11.4	A person who is not generous can not be an artist.
0:14.2	The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.
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0:28.0	Come for the honesty.
0:29.7	Stay for the fire.
0:34.6	Welcome to stuff you missed in history class,
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0:45.4	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
0:48.2	And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:50.9	So if you have ever heard the phrase every day and in every way I'm getting better and better,
0:58.0	you know the work of today's subject. That saying incidentally was co-opted by Tony Robbins for his
1:04.3	motivational coaching business, which today's subject really would not have been cool with. It really
1:09.7	belongs to a pharmacist from Troix France,
1:13.0	who in the early 20th century developed a method
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