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Great read Barry.

Its your fault for making me like this article. Seriously, self deceit can make you blame/credit others for your positive feelings as well. Fulfillment, acceptance, self esteem, happiness, can be and are used to indoctrinate people as well.

Better to happily take responsibility for everything that goes wrong and credit others for your achievements publicly, while knowing privately that you are pleased with yourself.

It puts you in control of yourself.

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Thank you, David.

Exactly. The simple example is when people are puzzled that the good vibes they had going out to a restaurant are not be repeated. The feelings never came from the food etc. in the first place.

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