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How Optimism Helps You Achieve Goals With Less Stress
By Shanna B. Tiayon — 2021
A new study finds that optimistic students are more likely to succeed.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.3