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Review title: The secret explained
Product review: Yes, our thoughts influence the world, but not the way it's described here. Actually, it works more like this:1. Your thoughts and feelings influence each other2. Your thoughts and feelings influence your behavior3. Your behavior affects something4. This affects something else5. This in turn affects something else(...omit a few steps here...)n. This in turn affects the thing you were thinking about.Even this is oversimplified, because everything has multiple effects on multiple things. For more details, read a book on cognitive therapy such as "Feeling Good" by Burns.Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and UpdatedThe other aspect is that your perceptions and attitude will affect how you view things. See any psychology textbook for more about this.So the simple formula "Your thought ---> the object of your thought" is just a gross over-simplification.Your thoughts make a difference, but not directly.
