Some reader might be thinking, “This is all nice and dandy, Quaerendo, but I cannot relate to the examples above… my cognition isn’t distorted to that extent.” Well, let me refer you to UTexas CMHC:
Maybe you are being realistic. Just for the sake of argument, what if you’re only 90% realistic and 10% unrealistic? That mean’s you’re worrying 10% “more” than you really have to.
Not intending to be overly negative, but this is not a good argument for anything and also doesn’t answer the hypothetical question of not relating to the examples. It sounds like, “You’re not perfect along this dimension, so you should devote energy to it!”—which is definitely not the case.
I appreciate the list of distortions; such lists are nice raw material.
Not intending to be overly negative, but this is not a good argument for anything and also doesn’t answer the hypothetical question of not relating to the examples. It sounds like, “You’re not perfect along this dimension, so you should devote energy to it!”—which is definitely not the case.
I appreciate the list of distortions; such lists are nice raw material.