The Destructive Habit of Evaluating Everything We Do

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You’re going through your day, and it’s like you’re a newspaper critic, constantly looking for things to praise and criticize.

Did a workout? Amazing job! Spent too much time on YouTube? Slacker! Body looking flabby as you walk past the mirror? You absolute slob.

Everything we do becomes something to judge: Are we worthy of praise, or criticism?

We are in the mental habit of constantly evaluating everything we do, to see if we’re worthy or not. We do this with other people as well, and with life situations in general—everything is evaluated as “good” or “bad.”

This mental habit of evaluating everything—while completely normal and natural—is actually pretty destructive.

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