I’m currently reading “Reframe your Brain“ by Scott Adams. The book is filled with reframes for common situations that give us stress, or are unpleasant. He usually starts with “usual frame“ and then gives “reframe“. The chapter I’m reading now has to do with social reframes.one idea that stuck out to me he says there’s really just two types of people in the world bad people who don’t care about you and good people who understand that you’re human. Here is the reframe related to that:
Usual Frame: People judge me, so I feel bad when I mess up.
Reframe: People only care about themselves. they don’t care what dumb thing I did recently, even if they mention it.
What I love about this and the other reframes is that it reminds me that there are hundreds of ways to see any situation, and if I’m feeling stressed about something, it Hass to do with my perspective in that moment. And there’s great freedom in realizing that when I look at another way, it can empower me and cause me to take more effective action, or if I can’t take action, help me feel better about the situation, and then feel better overall.
