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Endless Energy (get the book or audiobook) by Peter Hollins is a guide to becoming insanely energetic.

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Episode Transcript

All-or-Nothing Thinking

• “Gosh, I haven’t read a single book this month and my goal was to read three! I’m horrible at sticking to goals. If I can’t read three books, I may as well not read at all.”
• “I chewed with my mouth open that one time. How could I have done that?! How disgusting. No one will ever be with someone like me. Tasha is going to break up with me tomorrow, I just know it.”

All-or-nothing thinking can also be called tunnel vision. This type of cognitive distortion occurs when you focus only on one outcome or factor to judge an entire situation, and anything else amounts to a failure. Instead of taking a balanced viewpoint, there is only black or white, yes or now, fail or succeed.

Continue reading “Black or White; Yes or No; Fail or Succeed: The Pitfalls of Poor Perceptions.”