The Growth Saboteurs

10 Personal Development Thinking Mistakes

One of the things I’ve been fascinated about as I’ve been learning chess is discovering my thinking mistakes. It turns out, my brain isn’t a well-programmed computer when it comes to making chess decisions, so uncovering my thinking mistakes is a great way to improve.

I’ve been thinking about how to apply this to personal development — if you’re trying to create better habits or improve your productivity or fitness, how can you uncover some old thinking patterns that aren’t serving you?

So here’s my attempt at pointing to some very common thinking patterns that I believe aren’t serving most people as they try to improve parts of their lives …

Please read the descriptions of each, because the part in bold might not be something you recognize until you read further.

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