Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not,

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about how your brain changes reality and changes what you see based off of your past because your brain is lying

to you all of the time and psychology and neurology prove it every thought that you have is filtered

distorted and shaped by your past experiences so it's not objective reality that you're living

in. It's a distortion through your perception. The problem is, you don't feel like it's a

distortion. You think that it's true. You think that it's logical. You think that it's justified.

But what if the anxiety that you feel, the insecurity that you replay, the assumptions that you make about other people are all just mental glitches that your brain has normalized? Well, that's what we're going to be talking about today is I'm going to go into the cognitive distortions that may be running your life without you even knowing it. And so I'm going to go through the six most common cognitive distortions that exist. Now, we've all heard that perception is

reality, right? The fact is, that's not true at all. Your perception is what you think is reality. Your

perception is not absolute reality. In fact, your perception is usually not reality at all. Your

brain filters and distorts everything that comes into your brain through your five senses.

And then it filters everything through your conditioning after that.

And the millions of experiences that you've had in your entire life,

every single thing that comes in through your five senses is filtered through those conditionings

of your entire childhood, your adolescence, your adulthood.

And so like I said, in psychologies, these are called cognitive distortions.

And they are actual, real distortions.

Cognitive distortions are biased ways of thinking that reinforce your beliefs

about yourself, about the world, about other people, and reinforce your most common emotions

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