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What If?
mental health
mindfulness
mindset
positive psychology
purpose
Nov 28, 2025
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The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fear—and how to train it to imagine opportunity.
“You can ‘what-if’ yourself to death,” she said.
She was right, of course. I’m an INFP, a first-born, a...
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