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Catastrophizing
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RuminationThought Loops: Replaying the Conversation Feels Like Processing
The meeting ended at four and you are still in it at midnight, on the eleventh pass. Here is what rumination actually looks like, why the loop convinces you it is working, and how to tell the pass that produces a lesson from the ten that only reopen it.
CatastrophizingCatastrophizing: One Bug to “The Company Is Over” in Four SecondsA single churned customer, and by the time you have finished reading the email the business has failed. Here is what catastrophizing actually looks like in a founder, why the leap is the pattern rather than the news, and how to get the distance back.