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Exercise13 minSubjectiveDiscipline

Try a new role

"I'm just like this" is a hypothesis, not a fact. Write a script for a different you, and play it in a single scene.

The path

How it works

  1. The stiffened stanceWrite
  2. The scriptWrite
  3. After the sceneWrite
Some self-images are never tested: I'm not someone who takes up space, I'm the one who fixes everything, I'm bad with people. Thinking DIFFERENTLY about them rarely works. Acting differently does, and the role format mak …

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The evidence

Why does it work?

The format comes from Kelly's fixed role therapy. It is clinically established but has never been studied at scale for outcomes. The mechanism has strong support, however: behavioral experiments are a core component of CBT, and self-perception follows observed own behavior (self-perception theory, Bem). Here it is scaled down to a single scene instead of the book's two-week role.

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