🔼: [[💡 Jumping to Conclusions]] ###### Fortune-Telling You tell yourself that something terrible is about to happen. - "I just know I'm going to blow it when I take my test next week." - “I’m never going to find another partner.” - “My illness will get worse and worse.” - “I’m going to go bankrupt or lose my house.” In reality, we don't predict — we imagine. Prediction is precise and certain. Fortune-Telling is a [[💡 Trailheads|trailhead]] that shares some similarities with [[💡 Obsessions#Obsession with Others|obsessions with other people]]. There’s a [[💡 Parts|part of us]] who is trying to make predictions and reach conclusions with too little information, filling in the blanks with bad outcomes when [[🔑 Do the next right thing|🔑 the wise thing to do]] might be to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. Like if today something is worse than it was yesterday, our mind might draw a line between those points and predict a downward trajectory. Sometimes we feel like there’s a massive crater in the road when really we’re looking at a small imperfection through a microscope and letting it take up the whole of our vision. Maybe the wise thing to do would be to lean in and learn more, or just wait.