Do you believe mind over matter is true? Is anybody capable of anything they want to be capable of?

not on this planet, no.
I have yet to see a genuine case of telekinesis, let alone anyone materialising an object with his thoughts.

Welcome to the connective. No, I don’t. No matter how much I wished it, or studied, I cannot be a professional football player. I will never know the trill of threading the needle to my receiver on a long bomb, and then getting clobbered by three 350 lb. plus guys.

Anything? No.

More than you think you’re capable of? Almost definitely.

Capable and excelling at I see as two different things.

I am capable of flying a plane but will never fly the space shuttle. But both are an accomplishment of flight.

Mind over matter only goes so far but a good attitude is a very powerful in many respects. It can keep you healthy, it can help you deal with pain, it can make you successful and it can help you accomplish things that most people think they can’t do.

It won’t help you if you fall out a 20th story window.

Mind over matter works.
Until your mind gets tired.
And then it doesn’t really matter.

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No I don’t. As hard as I tried to sing as well as Beverly Sills I still can’t carry a tune in a bucket with a lid. I do believe that attitude has a lot to do with achievement, a positive outlook can really take a person a long way. A negative attitude can create an awful lot of bad energy that can really hold a person back.

No. Conscious mind over instinct, sure (ignoring fuzzy definitions). Mind over matter, certainly not.
All those people who were massacred in Rwanda clearly didn’t want to not be hacked to pieces hard enough.

The expression goes a lot further if we use the colloquial definition for matter, rather than the scientific: matter meaning situation or reason for concern, rather than substance which consists of mass and volume.

That’s basically what everyone is saying. And I think it’s true in that sense, including conscious mind over instinct

“It won’t help you if you fall out a 20th story window.”

Are you sure about? A life well lived is a life well lived. We are going to die anyway.

A positive attitude (mind over matter) is what it all is about anyway. Even in and especially in a diverse situation.