Derek Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I was very sure that was a fact.
So now I'm going to try, what could other potential beliefs look like?
So what's the opposite of my mother's too judgmental and hard to please?
And then she was telling me a statement of fact.
She was telling me that the flowers didn't look so great.
Okay.
Does that necessarily mean it's a judgment?
Maybe not, right?
So that could also be true.
Okay, here's a third perspective, another belief.
Instead of my mother's too judgmental and hard to please, I am too judgmental and hard to please.
Could that be true?
Well, to be honest, I had rehearsed exactly the script of effusive praise that I was expecting from my mother.
These flowers, they're the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.
And when I didn't get that,
I lost it.
So who was judging who?
I was judging her response.
That's what was really going on.
Or at least it could be what was going on.