One can never travel a perilous road without encountering certain obstacles. If you haven’t faced a hindrance, your goal isn’t novel enough. Barracks will prop up in every phase of our lives, and if we are to succeed, our objective is to recognise them and tear them down. One obstacle that I find plagues many …
How frequently do you find yourself thinking, feeling, or talking as if there’s only one right way of looking at things? Ever so often, humans speak in binaries – either right or wrong, winner or loser, fat or thin, smart or stupid. Everything is either black or white, with no scope of a grey middle …
What is Overgeneralisation? Put simply, ‘overgeneralisation’ is the act of taking a conclusion from one instance and applying it to every similar situation, even (and especially) where it doesn’t apply. When you face a particular outcome from a situation and then assume that outcome to be universal to many other situations, you are overgeneralising.Overgeneralised statements …
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