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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Psychologists know that people have a very strong confirmatory bias, which basically means they will look for confirming evidence and discount disconfirming evidence. Often what you see in psychotherapy is a battle between those two perspectives going on in the minds of the client. They have a specific viewpoint about the world. Like their viewpoint might be, well, when it comes right down to it, you really can't trust other peoplea has all sorts of reasons for believing that they ere abused as children or they've had a bad, developedmental history. But the truth of the matter is is that as long as they hold on to that belief and won't let it go, and no wonder,

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