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the therapy example in particular - i've seen 3 different examples now of people who pioneered a therapy technique using that technique on other people live and they do something special that people who didn't pioneer the therapy don't do. sort of a kind of hypnotism

it's hard to put into words but... something like, they are very calm and very confident that the technique is good and will work, and the client *picks up on that calm and confidence* and it helps them relax into the technique itself more successfully

in my own coaching work i have also noticed that some of my most dramatic results with clients occurred during times i was very calm and very confident that the technique is good and will work (for some value of "work"). one needs to have faith, i suppose

8:17 PM · Jul 26, 2021Twitter Web App

obviously this is abusable. at the extreme end you get highly charismatic gurus who are so confident that their thing is good and will work that they completely wrap you around their finger. one also needs to uh not be an asshole about it

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This is also true in love - those that believe in "the one" tend to have longer and more successful relationships, although have less accurate beliefs about their relationships than those who don't Magical thinking can be (un)helpful depending on how you think about it!

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I get all of this except I don't actually see how it can translate in the psi experiment—the initial confidence in result shouldn't actually be able to correlate their future gaze and skin response, right? Unless... maybe I should read methodology

the psi stuff i don't feel like i have enough experience with to say anything useful about. i'm open to a wide range of possibilities here. i think you can just barely explain it in a way consistent with materialism by imagining people picking up on *extremely* subtle cues

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