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[Gaugamela]

5. I call this meta-thinking. Instead of focusing on tasks and goals in

the immediate present, you try to take a bird’s eye view of your whole life story and cast judgment on it. I know this mind frame well. But the bird’s eye view is always distorted and deceptive. It’s a filter colored by your depression. I’ve learned to catch myself whenever I start to go down that road and interrupt it. I tell myself “that’s meta-thinking, let it go”. Then I think of something I want to do: clean something, read a book, go for a walk . . .

Winston Churchill once said, “Success is nothing more than moving on undefeated from one glorious failure to the next”.

Failure is a matter of perspective and opinion. Probably the reason no one else sees it the way you do is that to them it just looks like life.

My advice is, stop thinking about yourself and turn your attention outward.