A Psychologist on the Loose
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Why Not You?
Last Saturday afternoon a short, skinny gelding won the Kentucky Derby by the biggest lead in 63 years. Against every measure this horse is a loser. But he won. Why not you?
Maybe you didn’t have all of Mine the Bird’s avantages. After all, he was given up as a loser, gelded, rated at 50 to 1, and came out of the starting gate rather badly.
What if Mine the Bird had had a typical human Emotional Guidance System to get in his way? No way he’d have been in the race. No way he’d talked himself into showing up at the track. He certainly didn’t LOOK like More >