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14 Mental Traps That Keep Controlling Your Life

How to stop people from taking advantage of you? How to finally become a confident person? Sometimes we fall into our own mind’s trap, and we make decisions that can go completely wrong.

It’s easy to fall victim to different clichés and stereotypes pounded into our head by society. Our minds constantly play games with us, setting traps and imaginary obstacles.

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Double standards 0:36

Arguing just for the sake of winning 1:23

Comparing apples to oranges 2:16

Trusting only “your” people 3:00

Overgeneralization 3:51

Blindly jumping on the bandwagon 4:42

We remember only our best traits…

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