Andy boxes his Chimp Now Andy can box the Chimp by talking to it using truth and logic. He might say the following to the Chimp: ‘If you really don’t want to go then we won’t go, we can just stay with a hole in the tooth and deal with the inevitable problems from this. If we do go it may be painful to a certain extent. I agree with you.’ (Sometimes it is right to agree with the Chimp if it is telling you the truth. There is no point in having ‘positive thinking’ if this is really just ignoring the truth. Let’s stick to reality thinking, which is more like it!) ‘If we go and get the tooth fixed
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