/2008/04/04/post-hypnosis-society/ Health and Science Blog Covering Brain Topics Sat, 29 Dec 2018 04:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 /2008/04/04/post-hypnosis-society/#comment-601925 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:22:54 +0000 /?p=739#comment-601925 I find these conclusions significantly congruent to my own although arrived at by entirely different experience and means. I addressed what I saw as this “hypnosis” when I still young and then by age 25 leaving a major corporation, despite the financial bounty I was receiving, and entering a profession where I was “my own man.” It is much harder work in many ways, but I have maintained ferociously independent thought where necessary (which was not welcome in the corporate environment). The sad reality is that most people are sheepish, even when they have the potential not to be, simply because they avoid or have never been forced to “suffer” adversity, which is one of the most effective learning and conditioning tools. We condition our young, when risk is most tolerable, to favor security over the risk of failure, bypassing the growth experiences from failing or even the risk of failing.

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