They focus on that, it’s a lot easier to succeed in ignoring the white elephant.” For some people it’s scrapbooking or gardening or any of a long list of things to do. But the trick to not thinking about a white elephant is to think of a red balloon. And it’s like, if people tell you not to think of a white elephant, you’re going to think of a white elephant. They’re going to say it over and over again. I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a fair number of drug addicts come through, and there is a thing where if you’re like, on your first offense, they’ll do a thing where you can go to treatment and if you complete it they’ll take the conviction off your record.Īnd he would tell his clients, “Look, everyone’s going to tell you not to do drugs.
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