Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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EXTRAPOLATION
Extrapolation is when we take our current circumstances
and then project them out into the future. Ryan Holiday
says it best: “This moment is not my life. It is a moment
in my life.”
Extrapolation makes us think that we are the sum of our
past or current experiences, that whatever stressors or
anxieties we are currently experiencing are ones that we
will grapple with for the rest of our lives. Unable to see
through the problem at hand, we assume it will never resolve
itself. Unfortunately, this can become a self-fulfilling
prophecy. If we are so easily defeated and exhausted by
the idea that we will never get over our problems, then we
make it more likely that we will hang onto them instead
of logically trying to resolve them, for a lot more time
than is necessary.
SPOTLIGHTING
Everyone thinks that the world revolves around them.
You are thinking about you and your own interests all day,
every day. It can be challenging to forget that others are
not thinking about us with such intensity; they are thinking
about themselves.
The spotlight effect is what happens when we imagine
that our lives are performative, or “on display” for others to
consume. We remember the last two or three embarrassing