Derek Thompson

Which one serves me best?

Well, I'll tell you that first belief that I had that I was sure was a fact that my mother is too judgmental and hard to please.

There was only one way out.

She had to change so I could be happy, so I could decrease my suffering.

Now, I don't know if you know my mom.

That's not going to happen.

It generally does not happen with people that they're going to change so that you can feel better.

With the other three beliefs, I could do something with that.

And so I had greater agency now that I could change my belief.

Now, it wasn't about holding myself to, well, what really happened and what's the fact here?

None of these are facts.

They're all beliefs because they're happening up here.

They're not laws of physics that my mom is judgmental and hard to please.

It is all perception.

So instead of a belief that hurt me, I picked a belief that served me.

So Ted Kaptchuk is a researcher at Harvard, and he studies IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

And he gave patients, he's been researching placebos for decades, he gave his patients who were suffering from IBS a bottle of pills, and he told them, this is a placebo.

It says placebo on the bottle.

In fact, you can buy on Amazon right now, if you search placebo pills, you can buy these type of pills right now.

And you can see five-star reviews of people saying how it provided fast-acting relief.