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No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

—DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

3An End to Self-Sabotage

It’s time to answer an important question and settle the matter once and for all: The proverbial glass of water bearing precisely 50 percent of its total capacity: is the darn thing half full or half empty?

We need a nonequivocal answer, a conclusive answer that we can grasp and embrace from now on and forever more, because the answer to this simple question is at the very root of dreamcrafting.

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Optimists versus Pessimists: Who’s Right?

Two people are sitting facing each other across a small table. A third person approaches and deposits a card between them. The card has something printed on it.

“How many words appear on this card?” the ...

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