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• Alternatively, your decision to eat might be influenced by signals from your surroundings. You might, for instance, see a great-looking cake in a bakery window and decide that it has your name written all over it.
• Forget all about positive thinking. It’s time for positive action.
• “In the beginning was the deed.” —Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Seen from this perspective, the link between how you feel and the way you act is as straightforward as it is unsurprising. Mystery solved, case closed.
• Common sense suggests that emotions cause behavior: