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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

James Bond with a camera. Social psychologists have been talking about these “positive illusions” for years in terms of mental health outcomes (see the work by Shelley Taylor and her colleagues). Two hours later, as they lay desolate on the yacht’s sun deck in the warm tropical air, they heard the roar of twin diesels. But of course!

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