Calm Lark's Reading Notes V: "The Best of Planning" - The Trap of Self-Limiting Concepts

Calm Lark's Reading Notes Five: "Planning the Best Year" - How to tell if you are falling into the trap of self-limiting ideas?

Jeremy Dean mentions three fatal myths in Habits: The Key Force that Changes Fate: [Inset] Be careful: The idea of self-limitation will distort our view of the world, others, and ourselves. Black and white. Thinking that unless it is perfect, it is a failure. Reality is often a scale, not a switch. Subjectivization. Blame yourself for random negative events. Fuss. Even if there are only slight signs, prepare for the worst. Here we can add a fourth article: universalization. I had a bad experience and thought it was a universal rule.

Where do these ideas come from? The Source of Limiting Beliefs As mentioned earlier, some of our self-limiting ideas come from previous failures or setbacks. Repeated setbacks can lead us to make the worst assumptions. This allows us to step up our hoarding behavior and avoid risk. But if we are good at observation, we will find other sources of self-limiting ideas. For example, the news media has a strong negative bias. Professional journalist Michael Grotehouse once said: "Research shows that excess news can lead to depression, anxiety, and that most news does not give readers the actual ability to change or influence what is said in the news." "Turning on the news, it's easy to believe that the world is getting uglier — more and more crime, poverty, violence. Lengthy clichés are rife with worry and fear, interspersed with horrific commercials for medical conditions. News organizations tend to report negative news to viewers because fear activates more primitive parts of the brain and attracts more attention. Even more unfortunately, journalism is in decline. Therefore, the media has intensified the use of public fear to increase the audience of advertising.