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How to Overcome Self Defeating Inhibitions: On the Fallacy of Needing to Know Why

Mark Sanford, Ph.D.
4 min readJun 21, 2022

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Manage fears and doubts with the ‘as if’ technique

In my ambitious days of striving for more worthiness, I always got stuck in finding a way forward, whether stopping a bad habit, losing weight, or pushing myself forward to some virtuous goal.

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Mark Sanford, Ph.D.

Ph.D. sociology. I help those working on personal development to attain self-respect and self-affirmation.https://medium.com/@sanfmark/membership