Law of Attraction: How A Maine Clockmaker Ended Up On Your TikTok Feed
How a 19th century clockmaker accidentally invented a 34 billion view TikTok phenomenon.
A Maine clockmaker with no formal schooling accidentally discovered the placebo effect in the 1840s. Two centuries later, his idea, heavily disguised, has 34 billion views on TikTok. This is the strange chain that runs from a clockmaker's bench through a Boston religion, a forgotten 1910 self-help book, Oprah's couch, and your For You page, and the unsettling neuroscience that explains why manifestation sometimes seems to work.
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