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RE: Rewiring Your Brain for Fun and Profit - The Fallacy of Self-Help

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I find it interesting that you put the law of attraction down, and then later in your blog you tell us how you became successful and what you did, which in basic terms is what the "Secret" is also. Yes, some gurus use it to make money and it has been taken out of proportion, and as with anything else in life, when people "try" something and it doesn't work, that never stand up and take the blame, there is always an excuse as to why it didn't work for them. I agree with a lot of what you say but there are still questions and outcomes that science can never answer!

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I agree with the above comment and your text also. Selling law of attraction is bullshit and having confidence to try out your ideas should be something we get from our culture and surrounding people, not some dodgy self help guru. But since at least western culture what I personally represent isn't the most supportive on personal confidence, rather fear and consuming, so positive thinking patterns and ridiculously believing in your self might be what you need in order to avoid being a clog in someone else's machine.

western culture ... isn't the most supportive on personal confidence, rather fear and consuming

Quoting the part that I thought was worthy of an upvote.

Veerra, is that you, the crazy Finnish wench we all love? :D

who else :P

👍nice post, see the newest ur post @menta

Amazing post @menta

You're right. There are still questions that science can't explain... for now.
We know so little of how the brain works, that we'll be discovering a lot of new things the coming years. I'm sure science will have an answer for everything if we give it enough time

As I understand it science cannot answer everything due to the scientific method. The scientific method seeks only to disprove a hypothesis. It cannot prove anything. As we disprove various hypothesis we leave various other explanations on the table but do not prove them. What is left standing is not necessarily true, it just hasn't proved to be false.

Not sure if I made this clear.

Plus there's the fact that science is based on objective measurements, while things like our subjective experience of the world aren't measureable. It's also based on repeatability. Imagine a unique cosmic phenomenon that only happens once every 100,000 years. It's gonna be pretty hard to observe it.

Believing that science can explain everything is a religious belief. The only thing we know for sure is that science explains many things.

This is one of the best comments I read in a long while.
I agree completely with what you said. Science only disproves other possibilities. The power of elimination.

What possible evidence could you have that science will have an answer for everything? Is science so fine and perfect that it has no flaws, no blind spots, no sphere in which it can't find the truth? Is science a god?

I think you're missing the point.
The only way to find the truth, is through scientific discovery. I never said I blindly believe in science, that would be silly.
For me, I only believe things that are proven, preferably through empirical evidence.