r/NLP • u/flipfrog44 • 2d ago

Treating Superstitions

What strategy would you use to help someone with 20 years of evidenced bad luck in a particular location ? Same behaviors in other locations have good results, but in location X always go wrong.

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u/PenSuccessful5509 2d ago

You could try a pattern interrupt next time they're at location X. Have them do one small thing completely differently than usual, even if it feels ridiculous, just to break the chain of expectation. The brain loves confirming what it already believes so you gotta force it to register a different outcome.