Really? Every day? 365 days a year? I’m pretty sure a lot of things worked out for you today. What happened?
What happened is Global Labeling.
Global Labeling is an error of thinking characterized by generalizing one or two negative qualities and applying them without any consideration to context. When something bad happens once, a person who has this error of thinking will ignore all evidence to the contrary and have a very one dimensional view of themselves or others. There’s no complexity to their thoughts. In fact, they are having judgements. Expect language to be very colorful and emotionally loaded. This error of thinking is the ultimate kind of generalization. Instead of providing context for an error, a person will attach unhealthy labels to themselves and/or others.
When projected outward towards others, global labeling can really represent some of the worst kind of thinking, like stereotypes and prejudice. Expect snap judgements and relationship problems when someone is thinking this way.
If you are global labeling yourself, you are damaging your self esteem and you owe it to yourself to shake this error of thinking.
So how do you do that?
Suspend judgement.
Ask yourself, am I giving an accurate account of what happened? Am I providing context? Or am I just negatively labeling myself?
When considering your thoughts about others, ask yourself, am I considering this person as an individual? Or am I lumping them into group based on only one or two experiences I’ve had?
-Dr. Norton
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