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DOUBLE_THE_NEGATIVE

                                              November 28, 2001
                                        Rev:  April    24, 2011
"Hipsters" in general are
people who have embraced
the negative on a pretty
deep level.

To a typical "sophisticated"
view point, positive sounding         "You can be happy, just get
advice is always going to             out there and work on it!"
sound like bullshit.

    There's a psychological trick you can
    use to get around this block though:
    embrace the double-negative.                    SCREWTAPE

    "You don't have to be unhappy" is a more
    effective mantra than "You can be happy."

    "You are a fundamentally good person"
    sounds stupid,  but "Hey, you're no
    more fucked up than anyone else" has
    the ring of truth about it.

    There you have it:

       "The Power of Double-Negative Thinking"
                                                     AFFIRM_FEAR
    Look for it on supermarket
    book racks everywhere.

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