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Hello there, I am really pleased to be chatting with you today I'm going to be talking to you

about on how to hold worst case scenario thinking.

Now, I don't know about you, but this is something

that I jump to all the time.

My brain is very creative. Us humans have the most incredibly

creative words. Now this serves us in so many ways doesn't it? Problem solving

just kind of if you're just creative just dreaming things up sometimes the stories that I make up on the spot for my kids at night

I'm there thinking this could be this would be great book this would be a great book. This would be a great book. My brain is so creative.

I can just think up the most incredible random wild stories and they love it and you know we can daydream and we can create our own fun sometimes in our minds can't we

But on the flip side of that our brains are also rather brilliant at making up stories about worst-case scenarios and they

can feel so real and they can feel so possible and unlike some of the stories that I tell my children, the stories

that my brain can create about worst-case scenarios aren't pie in the sky.

They're not alien invasions, they are, you know, there's a level of likelihood to them.

They're not impossible. They're not impossible. And think sometimes the the con of worst-case scenario

thinking or catastrophic thinking if we want to label it is that we can actually feel like thinking this way is helpful for us,

that if we think about the worst case scenario thinking, the worst case, worst possible scenario, then somehow it is preparing

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