Zee Beatty & the Socks of Doom
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About that message from the boss...
I sometimes wonder if Zee will ever learn!
I sometimes get really exasperated, he is such a slow learner. Let’s analyse what he is saying from a rational perspective.
1) I started to panic thinking I had done something wrong! That must have been the reason for the message.
What Zee does here is ASSUMING he has done something wrong and then taking this assumptions as a fact.
2) Throughout the day I could not stop thinking about it: I imagined he would be angry with me, would shout at me and tell me I was being fired.
Because he takes his assumption as a fact, he then starts to ‘fantasise’ what potentially could happen IF HIS ASSUMPTION WOULD BE CORRECT. And then he again takes these hypotheses as facts. I have done something wrong—> the boss will be angry with me—> I need to find out what it was that I did wrong so I can prepare —> The boss will fire me!All in all it results in Zee having an awful day and in the end only positive things happened!
Well dear Zee which thinking errors do you think you were using?Mr Percy, Jul 02, 2011Comment
