Psychology has largely concerned itself with how people become injured: mental illness, organic brain dysfunctions, and minor problems of every kind. Recently a new branch of this science has developed studying topics like happiness, creativity, and peak performance. For many of us, the truths and techniques we have been working with in our individual lives -- affirmation, visualization, moving our emotional set-points, cultivating enthusiasm, learning to trust our intuition -- have become the subject of great scientific interest. It will come as little surprise that science is untangling t
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