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

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identify the thing that can potentially hurt you and then
creatively come up with ways to completely avoid that experience.
The smarter you are, the better you become at this.
However, the more you avoid a fear, the more intense it
becomes.
WHAT’S A FAULTY INFERENCE?
A faulty inference is when you come up with a false conclusion
based on valid evidence.
This means that what you’re seeing, experiencing, or understanding
might be real, but the assumptions that you
are piecing together from it are either not real or are highly
unlikely.
One example is a hasty generalization, which is when you
make a claim about an entire group of people based on
one or two experiences you’ve had. This is the bias at the
base of a lot of racism and prejudice. Another example
is post hoc ergo propter hoc, which is what happens when
you assume that because two things happened around the
same time, they must be related, even if they aren’t.
A false dichotomy happens when you assume that there
are only two possibilities that could be valid, when in reality,
there are far more that you simply aren’t aware of.
An example of this is when your boss calls you to a private
meeting, and you assume you must either be getting