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I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at

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Hello and welcome to episode 239 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I'm so excited to share this episode with you because I'll be talking all about common

mistakes our minds can make. I think it can be really important to be

aware that sometimes our minds can be wrong and we won't even know it. Our minds are incredibly

powerful but they do make errors perhaps more often than we might realize. So I thought I'd

create this episode to help you understand more about the mistakes your mind can make and why.

I don't want to make you completely distrust your own mind, but it can be really helpful to be aware of these cognitive errors and to remember that sometimes it's worth acknowledging that you might not always be right.

I hope that learning about these mistakes will actually empower you to become more open-minded,

to make more informed decisions and to understand why it's important to gently question

your own thoughts and opinions sometimes.

One mistake your mind can make is remembering

things incorrectly. Your mind doesn't store memories as perfect replicas of reality. They can

be distorted, influenced and reconstructed, even entirely fabricated, and you probably won't even know it. There has been

heaps of research that has shown just how malleable memories can be. For example, in one study

by Loftus and Palmer in 1974, participants were shown footage of traffic accidents. Then they were

asked to pretend they were eyewitnesses and to describe what

had happened by answering some questions, including their estimated speed of the cars. What the

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