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0 pointsbill_mon8y ago0 comments

>I've been using it every day and can honestly say its really helped me

How do you know this? It seems to me to be quite difficult to test properly.

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mindsetalex8y ago· 2 in thread

I've been tracking my time regarding accomplishing tasks/procrastinating and have noticed a definite shift.

Additionally, I have done two presentations and my performance was commented on by my colleagues as a lot more confident and self-assured (I definitely felt that way).

Sleep is easy to quantify: I used to struggle to fall asleep until 1-2am and now I am falling sleep before 12 every single night.

bill_monOP8y ago

This shows that there has been a change, not what caused it. How do you account for placebo effect and self deception?

mindsetalex8y ago

It's extremely difficult to account for those effects in a one-man-study, but the science has shown that it definitely causes distinct neural changes in the brain: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/07/study-identif...

And other studies have shown that placebo cannot account for the majority of effects of hypnosis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4812013/

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