The Lisbon Meetup

≈ 6 min

Read the monologue below and identify (a) the single cognitive distortion driving the speaker's reasoning, and (b) the exact phrase in the text that most clearly signals it. This is a puzzle — the speaker is a fictional, invented person; this is not therapy or clinical advice.

The scene

A newcomer's first language-exchange meetup abroad

In the differential

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

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This case first aired on July 28, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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