Making Up Movies

Subbu Allamaraju
Subbu’s Journal
Published in
Mar 12, 2022

Continuing from my previous article on managing yourself, another classic trap that impedes personal growth is endlessly playing self-made movies in your mind and believing in those plots. Let me describe a particular situation.

One evening, I got a call from an ex-colleague out of the blue. We’ve not spoken for years. He wanted to talk, and I said go on. He sounded upset and beaten. For the next ten to fifteen minutes, he gave me a crude sketch of what was going on at work with his current manager, the new manager, some details about how he felt about them, and some feelings of betrayal.

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