I concentrate my thoughts on ideas and beliefs that make me feel good.

Anyone who has rehearsed an argument in the shower has noticed they get remarkably good at it. Fluent, even. The lines arrive faster each time and the imagined opponent gets weaker with every run.

That is practice, and practice is entirely indifferent to subject matter. A thought returned to often becomes easier to reach than one you have had twice.

What turns up isn't yours to choose. What gets a second run is.

Over a year that is the difference between a mind that arrives at the worst reading first and one that has to be talked into it.