The danger with magnifying/minimizing any incorrect perception is that it can significantly derail you from personal success.
Imagine how disheartening it would feel if after every company win, your leader told everyone, “Just because we won, it doesn’t mean we’re doing well.”
We’d all like to believe we don’t succumb to distorted perceptions that lead us - and anyone connected to us - astray. The truth, however, is we are all very susceptible to many cognitive distortions.The cognitive distortion at play in the above examples is but one of the many we can succumb to, and it is called Minimization / Magnification.
Magnification - I got an average performance review from my boss, which really proves how inadequate I am.Magnification - Two of twenty people gave me great feedback on my presentation, so this means I did amazing.ADVERTISEMENT It’s much easier for our brains to make small tweaks to new information and experiences so that our existing ways of thinking remain intact, rather than change our minds. So, we minimize the importance of anything that disagrees with or challenges our thinking, and we magnify the importance of anything that supports it.
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