Overcome Initial Unpleasantness The first step is a willingness to do things that don’t feel good at first. This is difficult because your brain usually trusts its own reactions. You don’t usually listen to music you dislike on the assumption that you’ll grow to like it. You don’t befriend a person you dislike or join an activity you’re bad at on the assumption that something will change. It’s natural to trust your current likes and dislikes. But now you know that they’re based on accidents of experience rather than complete information. Your accidental circuits cause the threatened feeling
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