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Is Your Brain Failing You?

The science behind why you talk yourself out of everything, and how to take your power back.

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Alexa Schirm
Jun 04, 2026
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Your brain is already predicting the future.

Right now, as you read this, your brain is doing what it always does, predicting the future. Or at least attempting to.

Research has found that 70% of our thoughts are attempts at predicting the future. Not simmering in the past, but building assumptions about what’s to come.

You know what they say about assum…

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