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Someone cuts you off in traffic, and they're an inconsiderate jerk. You cut someone off, and you were simply distracted. This double standard is one of the most common, best-documented biases there is.
Reassurance works like a small loan against your own anxiety: it relieves the feeling now, and the debt comes due again soon after. Here's how to build the kind of self-trust that doesn't need constant topping up.
The promotion, the kind message, the small win, you know they're good, and still nothing stirs. That gap between knowing and feeling has a name, and it's more common, and more workable, than it seems.
The weather, other people's choices, the outcome of a decision already made. Worry doesn't check whether something is controllable before it latches on. Here's how to notice the difference and act on it.
