The Law of Attraction and the News
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...I’ve read a very good book “Influence” by Robert Cialdini. I started reading the book because of my interest in marketing, but in the chapter “Social Proof” I’ve found something very interesting connected with manifestation and the law of attraction....
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I’ve read a very good book |
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The book was banned in several |
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"Influence" by Robert Cialdini. |
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countries. |
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I learned about suicides, |
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According to Phillips some |
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murders and robberies. |
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people kill themselves in |
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I started reading the book |
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imitation. |
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I was pretty shocked and not |
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because of my interest in |
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knowing about the law of |
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marketing, but in the chapter |
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Others who for different |
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attraction started thinking |
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"Social Proof" I’ve found |
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reasons, like reputations, |
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that it’s not really such a |
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something very interesting |
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insurance policies etc. , |
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safe place. |
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connected with manifestation |
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and the law of attraction. |
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decide to crash airplanes or |
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Soon I saw a fight with knives |
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cars to make their suicides |
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between students on the bus I |
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In this chapter Dr Cialdini |
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look accidental. |
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was traveling. |
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gives interesting statistics |
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immediately after highly |
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There is more interesting |
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I saw drivers fighting on the |
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publicized suicide stories the |
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information in Cialdini’s |
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street. |
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number of people who die in |
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book, but there’s no space in |
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I started seeing more fights |
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commercial airline crashes |
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this article to write about it. |
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and aggression than ever |
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increases by 1,000 percent. |
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before. |
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The number of people who die |
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For most scientists David |
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Clearly I started attracting |
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in car crashes increases |
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Phillips’ explanation seems |
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what I read about in the |
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dramatically as well. |
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the best one. |
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papers. |
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The author analyzes the |
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Of course there are some |
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Or was it just an accident? |
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reasons why so many people die |
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quantum physicists now who |
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When I learned about |
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in crashes after highly |
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find the law of attraction the |
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Manifestation and the Law of |
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publicized suicides. |
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best explanation for sharp |
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Attraction I stopped reading |
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increase in plane and car |
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the newspapers regularly. |
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The first suggestion is that |
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crashes after highly |
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people commit suicides because |
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publicized suicides. |
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I read them rarely. |
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of stressful socio economic |
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I sometimes watch the news, |
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conditions. |
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According to the law of |
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but I don’t allow my mind to |
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attraction we attract what we |
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dwell on murders and suicides. |
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While some people commit |
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mostly think about. |
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suicides in such conditions, |
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the others because of stress, |
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When someone commits suicide |
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You might think that it’s bad |
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become angry or nervous or |
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and there’s a lot about it in |
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and that I don’t feel |
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impatient or distracted and |
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the news, people think about |
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compassion for human |
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cause fatal crashes. |
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it, become emotional, think |
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suffering, but I think that |
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about death and attract death. |
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dwelling on tragedies brings |
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But the socio economic |
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more tragedies. |
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conditions are not the reason. |
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Of course I can’t |
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People talk a lot about war |
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scientifically prove the law |
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against terrorism, drugs and |
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The increase in accidents |
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of attraction, but I’m |
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crime, and we have more |
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happens only in places where |
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personally convinced that we |
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terrorism, drugs and crime. |
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the suicides are highly |
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attract the things we think |
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publicized. |
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about a lot, especially with |
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Of course terrorism, drugs and |
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emotion and when we worry |
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crime must be eliminated, but |
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In the places with the same |
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about something. |
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by dwelling on them I |
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conditions or even worst, if |
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personally can’t eliminate |
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the suicides are not |
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About fifteen years ago when I |
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them I can only attract them |
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publicized, there is no |
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traveled in India with a group |
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into my life, which I don’t |
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increase in airplane and car |
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of friends, two of my friends |
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want. |
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crashes. |
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after reading about all |
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bacteria and amoebas which can |
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"Where is light, there is no |
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Another suggestion is that |
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cause serious illnesses became |
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darkness". |
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usually the suicides of famous |
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very afraid of drinking water. |
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We can’t remove darkness, but |
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and respected people are most |
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when we bring light there is |
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publicized. |
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no darkness. |
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We were all careful, but my |
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This makes people so sad that |
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two friends became so afraid |
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We can replace negative things |
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they become careless around |
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that they used bottled water |
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with positive things. |
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cars and airplanes. |
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even to clean their teeth. |
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I’m not talking here about |
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It’s a "bereavement" |
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The rest of us enjoyed |
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being naïve or foolish and not |
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explanation. |
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traveling in India and didn’t |
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seeing the reality, but to |
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But from the statistics we |
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worry about amoebas. |
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change my current situation I |
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know that "newspaper stories |
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need first to change my mental |
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reporting on suicide victims |
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When we came back to Europe, |
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state. |
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who died alone produce an |
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my "worried" friends became |
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increase in the frequency of |
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sick and amoeba was found in |
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I need to think positively, |
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single fatality wrecks only, |
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their bodies. |
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and reading the news about |
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whereas stories reporting on |
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crime, suicides and wars won’t |
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suicide plus murder incidents |
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They wowed never to go to |
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improve my life. |
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produce an increase in |
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India again. |
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multiple fatality wrecks only" |
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The rest of us was fine, we |
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It makes me depressed and |
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(Influence p. |
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didn’t attract amoeba. |
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stressed, and brings more |
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depression and stress into my |
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141) We can clearly see that |
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Was it an accident that only |
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life, so I’ve made a decision |
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plane and car crashes are |
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my two "worried" friends got |
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to concentrate on positive |
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influenced by suicide stories, |
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ill? |
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emotions. |
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not by social conditions or |
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sadness caused by deaths of |
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Later I moved to Thailand, |
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You don’t have to believe in |
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respected people. |
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where I felt very safe. |
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the law of attraction. |
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Another explanation comes from |
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I didn’t worry about any |
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There’s no need for scientific |
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David Phillips and Dr Cialdini |
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dangers, because I’d heard |
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proof. |
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finds it brilliant. |
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from other foreigners that is |
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You can make an experiment. |
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a very safe place and my |
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Stop reading about the bad |
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It’s called "Werther effect". |
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experience was the same. |
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news and try to read more |
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Werther is a hero from Johann |
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about happy things. |
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von Goethe’s novel "The |
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Later when I got cable TV, I |
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Sorrows of Young Werther" In |
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also got a free subscription |
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Avoid reading about crime, |
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the book the hero Werther |
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of the local newspaper, so I |
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suicides and violence. |
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commits suicide. |
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started reading it every day. |
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Read more about great and |
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The book had strong influence |
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Then I learned about fighting |
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successful people. |
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on many young people in Europe |
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between students of vocational |
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Watch more comedies than |
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two centuries ago. |
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schools, when they not only |
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violent movies. |
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sometimes kill each other, but |
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Continue your experiment for |
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Many people committed suicide, |
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also accidentally innocent |
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some time and you’ll see the |
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copying Werther. |
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people on the street sometimes |
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difference in your life. |
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die during the fights. |
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people
suicides
crashes
suicide
attraction
reading
publicized
crime
friends
attract
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