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> It's funny because the idea of "if you didn't succeed, you didn't try hard enough" is a cornerstone of the self-help industry and the charlatans peddling various self-improvement systems

For example “ HOW TO IDENTIFY & REMOVE ABUNDANCE BLOCKS FOR MANIFESTATION”https://selfmadeladies.com/overcome-abuandance-blocks-faster...

An aquantance had paid for a course on manifestation: she talked a lot about “blocks” when I questioned her about what stops manifestation from working!

“Blocks” are definitely blame-the-victim e.g. “you didn’t believe strongly enough so your cancer wasn’t cured”.




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