Self-improvement “movements” often recognize these endowments, but tend to segment them and to address them in isolation. Self-awareness is the focus of the recovery movement, as well as psychoanalysis and most psychotherapy. Conscience is the focus of religion—the world of morality, ethical thought, questions of meaning and right and wrong. Independent will is the will power, the “man on the street” approach—white-knuckle your way through life to get what you want. “No pain, no gain.” Creative imagination is the focus of visualization and mind power movements such as Positive Thinking,
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