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The World War II Water Down Theory
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Send us Fan Mail This mini podcast is about learned helplessness through conditioning. And how to recondition yourself and tap in to your resiliency. Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038 "The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. Joh...
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The title of this mini-podcast is The World War II Water Down Theory. I think most of us would agree with this. Your great-grandparents probably had it harder than your grandparents. Your grandparents had it harder than your parents.
And your parents probably had it harder than you. That seems to be the natural progression of things. And somewhere after World War II something else began to happen. Parents who had lived through hardship, understandably, wanted something different for their children.
They wanted them to have an easier life. They wanted to spare them some of the things they had endured. What a noble sentiment! And in many ways, it worked.
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