The Afternoon Briefing

≈ 6 min

Read the account below and identify (a) the single cognitive distortion it shows — or that there is no distortion — and (b) the exact phrase that signals it. This is a puzzle about patterns of thinking, not therapy or advice. The person described is entirely fictional.

The scene

An open-plan office after a team briefing where a colleague presented an idea

In the differential

Overgeneralisation
Fortune-telling
Personalisation
Mental filtering
Emotional reasoning
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on July 23, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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