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We talk about placebo effect with drugs-- the idea that a sugar pill can create psychosomatic effects on the body and brain when really the change is created entirely by the brain itself. Now if we take away the sugar pill, we begin to see that many things can take the place of a placebo pill--virtually anything we do in our day to day life can have "imagined" effects akin to those of taking a placebo. Through repetition and reinforcement, some of these effects become real and conditioned. Reddit- how much of your life and personality has been influenced by this phenomenon?
<bot>: If anything can have a placebo effect, how much do we run our lives on "imagined" or "expected" results of actions that naturally have a mostly neutral effect?