Episode Introduction: 

It’s time to challenge your stinking thinking. Tune in to find out how!

 

Episode Summary: 

In today’s episode of the Rise Station Podcast, Prunella Harris walks us through 10 different stinking thinking traps and how we can acknowledge as well as challenge them to create a more positive life for ourselves.

 

Rise Tribe Takeaways: 

• Some common themes of stinking thinking:

1. Compare & Despair.
2. Being Overly Judgmental.
3. Black & White Thinking.
4. Wearing Sunglasses or Rose Colored Glasses.
5. Catastrophizing.
6. Mind Reading.
7. Making Predictions.
8. Emotional Reasoning.
9. Shoulds & Musts.
10. Over Generalizations.

• How to challenge your stinking thinking habits:

1. Focus on celebrating your uniqueness.
2. Learn to agree to disagree to handle judgments.
3. Remember that people and situations can have both good and negative sides in co-existence.
4. Have the self-awareness to know when you’re filtering a person’s behavior based on your own bias.
5. Instead of thinking about the worst-case scenario, look at the past evidence.
6. Consider looking at the situation in a more balanced manner.
7. Thinking about the likelihood of a predicted situation actually happening.
8. Remember that your emotions are your feelings, not facts.
9. Set realistic expectations and avoid putting unnecessary pressure on yourself.
10. Work on improving the current situation instead of dwelling on the past.

 

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