... anyone else were to look at the ball from the same perspective they would agree that it is round and that it holds a certain circumference.We are all in the habit of judging as to the "real" shape of things, and we do this so unreflectingly that we come to think we actually see the real shapes. But as is seen ... about the basket ball itself is gotten, only about the appearance of the basketball. It is crucial to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says the really have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. It is clear fr...

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... not what happens but what they think it means." People, routinely distress themselves and others with arbitrary interpretations of what is going on. Sometimes this is done out of blind habit, or under the influence of a bad mood or bodily discomfort; sometimes it happens for quite other reasons. Challenging and changing one's doubtful interpretations of events is much of the cognitive ... ...

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