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How negative assumptions protect us from worse possibilities

I assume everyone at work dislikes me but I've never actually asked anyone and avoid conversations that might prove me wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind creates familiar suffering to avoid the unknown territory of genuine connection.

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