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Browsing through a gift shop the other day, I happened on a decorative plaque on which was inscribed a quote attributed to the late "power of positive thinking" guru Norman Vincent Peale: "Change your thinking, and you change your world."
I thought hard about that for several hours and came to the conclusion that Peale was being redundant. A change of thinking doesn't change the world, and I'm reasonably certain that he wasn't a humanist, so he really didn't believe in the idea that each of us constructs our own, equally valid, reality. So, I think he meant to say, "If you change your thinking, your entire worldview changes." And when one's worldview changes, perceptions, priorities, values and relationship to everything in the world changes as well. For those reasons, a person's behavior also changes. As such, people who know the individual in question can tell, even if they don't know his or her worldview has changed, that there is "something different" about him or her, and they begin responding differently to that person. His or her change of thinking, therefore, if it is valid and radical, changes other people's behavior.See the full content of this document
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