The 3 Dark Secrets It Turns Out Everyone's Hiding

The 3 Dark Secrets It Turns Out Everyone's Hiding

Human beings are prone to irrational thought. If you Google the topic right now, you may want to laugh at the lists that pop up. Irrational thoughts to most are things like "If people criticize me, there must be something wrong with me." That is not an irrational thought. That's a perfectly normal thought in the face of criticism and, in fact, may even be true. What if you are stupid? Not everyone is a genius. Sometimes people are dumb, or clumsy, or forgetful, or lazy. Sometimes not. So it's a reasonable thought, and the best you can say is not that it's irrational, but that it may be incorrect. It may be a baseless criticism of oneself.

Real irrational thoughts are not candy coated like that. Real irrational thoughts are ones few people will ever even write about, and I do so now at the risk of exposing myself as more monster than human. This is the stuff you never tell anyone. But you think it. I know you do. Hell, some of you may even act on these thoughts. And they generally come in three categories.

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