Derek Thompson
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Okay, here's a fourth option.
I am too judgmental and hard to please towards myself.
That one wasn't fun to consider at all, but turned out to be the most true.
That when I had spent all this time and money on doing something nice, and it didn't work out perfectly, I judged myself.
I had messed up.
I was incompetent that I couldn't get nice flowers for my mother for her birthday.
And so this is called a misattribution of emotion.
I felt crummy about myself.
And so the first person I could take it out on, you're going to get it.
That's exactly what I did.
Now I have four beliefs.
I have a portfolio of perspectives.
Which one is true?
Doesn't matter.
Which one is false?
None of them?
All of them?
It doesn't matter.
Exactly.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.