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A Harvard Psychologist Shows How to Change Those Limiting Beliefs You Still Have About Yourself
By Scott Mautz — 2019
We all have deep-rooted, deeply limiting beliefs about ourselves that just aren't true.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.