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Tell your brain a story and it will fake the evidence to match.
means The way simply planting an idea in someone's mind can shape what they perceive, feel, or do next, often without them realizing they've been nudged.
from Rooted in 'suggestion,' from Latin suggerere — 'to carry under' or 'supply from below' — the same root giving us the sense of quietly feeding an idea beneath conscious notice. The phrase itself gained traction with 19th-century work on hypnotism and persuasion, when physicians and showmen alike discovered that a calmly stated idea could outperform physical reality in shaping what a mind 'saw' or 'felt.'
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