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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
Nah, not really. It's more a case of because you are thinking about something, you tend to notice things related to it, that you wouldn't have noticed before you were thinking about it...
Example: You decide to buy a new car, and from that point on, you start seeing the style of car you intend to purchase on the street all time, and adverts for your chosen car everywhere...
This isn't because you are 'attracting it' Its because before you decided to buy he car, your brain marked those other cars and adverts as irrelevant, and filtered them out. Once you had set off on the path of intended purchase, your subconscious marks them as being relevant, and you notice them.
You can wake up everyday and visualise a bag of money being left on your front doorstep, but the chances of it happening BECAUSE you imagine it are zero.
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That's not quite the same thing CS. What you're describing is a form of cognitive bias. This has more to do with mental attitude, e.g. I believe I will make more from this business next year than this, therefore I am prepared to put in the effort to achieve that, so I am more likely to be right. If I didn't believe it I would be less likely to make the effort and therefore what I believed would be more likely to come true.