The Closed Notebook

≈ 4 min

Read the monologue below carefully. Identify (a) the single cognitive distortion it demonstrates, and (b) the verbatim phrase that signals it. This is a logic puzzle — the speaker is a fictional, invented person. Nothing here is therapy or clinical advice.

The scene

A shared office kitchen where an employee reflects on their new manager's first individual check-in earlier that day.

In the differential

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

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This case first aired on October 7, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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