THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE “If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one’s feelings by controlling one’s thoughts—or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.” That quote comes from Albert Ellis, one of the forefathers of modern psychology. Ellis found that how we think and talk about our experiences shifts the way we feel about them. In short, our thoughts are bedfellows with our emotions.
