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May 2016
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Episode 30: WOOP, There It Is

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Many of us have heard that we should think positive... Visualize ourselves achieving our goals. But researcher Gabriele Oettingen finds, this isn't actually the best advice. Instead, we should use her strategy — which she calls WOOP. 
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