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THE FOLLOWING is a list of thought-mistakes.
By making these common mistakes, you produce unnecessary negative
emotions. By catching yourself making those mistakes, you reduce
or eliminate those unproductive bad feelings. Read more about
how to do that here: The
Antivirus For Your Mind. Here is the straight list. Each
one goes to an article about it.
1. exaggerating
2. overgeneralizing
3. oversimplifying
4. extremism
5. overcertainty
6. negative
guessing
7. self-defeating
conclusions
8. false implications
9. choosing
the worst possible explanation
10. false helplessness
11. false hopelessness
12. shoulds
and musts
13. misplacing
responsibility
14. focusing
too narrowly
15. harmful judging
16. asking
unanswerable questions
17. bias
for confirmation
18. using
emotions as evidence
19. dismissing
facts
20. ignoring
alternatives
21. assuming
22. negative bias
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