Flag your cognitive distortions

- Do you have any other tools or approaches to tackle that fear of failure issue? - So it's something in the psychology world we call cognitive distortions. And it's ways of thinking about the world that just aren't accurate. And one of those is that black and white thinking that if I don't pass this test, then I will never graduate college, or if I don't rock out this one presentation, I will never move up in the company. More times than not that is not true. We do have a couple of those kinds of things in our life, if you're taking some GRE or the LSATs, you probably get a couple shots at that. But for the most part you can redo and change a lot of different things. And so I think that when you start to address those cognitive distortions, that really helps you to identify them first and then to combat them. Because really just the awareness that okay, this is some black and white thinking here. I am doing worst…