@Vertigo50: At some point, my Mum looked over my homework and told me to do it again. I did it angrily, thinking "I'll show her! I'll show her!" I did it, and I showed her, and she said it was good. I blinked, felt like and idiot, and never used that technique again.

@septentriones: Haha, what you're saying is actually quite indeed close to correct, though there is a bit more. We are a culmination of our experiences, but that doesn't mean that our minds cannot advance further than that, for all that is required is the idea of an experience, for example, I have never been sledding…

@Jaredu: We are the sum of our experiences so we can't truly believe what we think since our thought is a product outside of our own control. Unless of course we were raised to believe that the assimilation of experiences into our identity is controlled by our responses to them. One could argue that our response to…

I've been doing this sort of thing since I was a freshman in highschool; I used to be a super shy person that didn't talk to anyone, currently I'm a shy person that doesn't really care about anything, thinks he has the capacity to do absolutely anything with limitless potential yet still amounts to nothing as there's…

I once tried to make myself angry so I'd be more determined to finish something. Then one of my family came along and I snapped at them for no good reason. I haven't used that technique since.