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Here's an example:
Suppose your wife yells at you the minute you step through the door because you're half an hour late and now she's late for a meeting. Almost instantaneously, your thoughts and self-talk start spinning a tale about what her anger means:
God, why does she have to be so angry all the time. She should relax, it's not the big a deal-certainly not worth getting all bent out of shape over. She really should go see a therapist and get these anger issues under control.
First of all, there's a lot of potential assumptions and inaccuracies in this story:
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See, what most people don't realize is that anger is actually a positive emotion . We think of it as bad or negative because people who are angry often end up doing negative things. But if you really think about it, the feeling of anger ...
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Second, this storytelling is self-serving. The fact that these stories you're telling make you look like the good guy and her look like the bad guy are going to make you feel better. And the fact that it makes you feel better is a major conflict of interest when it comes to being objective. Maybe...
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