Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast.

I'm your host, Rob Dial.

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for free. Once again, 2026 workshop.com. Today, I'm going to talk about the way that we take reality

and we distort reality with our minds and in turn hold ourselves back.

And my goal is to help you identify where you might be doing this in your life and then

to give you some tools to get yourself out of it when you find yourself there so that

you don't hold yourself back.

And this thing that we're going to talk about today is called catastrophizing,

meaning you become fixated on the worst possible outcome for something in your life.

Oh, if I don't pass this test, then I'm going to fail this class.

And if I fail this class, I'll fail out of

school. And if I fail out of school, then I'll be a complete failure for the rest of my life.

Somehow, a test, and whether you do or don't pass it, just became complete failure for the rest

of your life. That's an example of catastrophizing. So the anxiety of a test

automatically turns into being a complete failure in your life. And I want you understand that

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