A Better Way to Give Yourself a Pep Talk

There’s a simple reason affirmations don’t work

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I’m smart. I’m funny. I’m successful. People like me. This is a not-even-close-to-exhaustive list of things I wish I believed about myself on a given day –– the kind of stuff that, in the event no one else was around to give me a pep talk, I’d probably recite in a mirror with yesterday’s mascara running down my…