The Mental Trap That Makes You Overreact to Setbacks

How to overcome what psychologists call “dichotomous thinking”

Melody Wilding, LMSW
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4 min readMar 1, 2019

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We all know people who greet life’s challenges with grit and grace. People who are calm and even-keeled under pressure, approaching worries, fears, and even injustice with magnanimity.

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Melody Wilding, LMSW
Forge
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Author of TRUST YOURSELF. Executive coach to Sensitive Strivers. Human behavior professor. Featured in NYT, NBC, CNN. https://melodywilding.com/book