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The peril of “causal upgrades”

What happens when monkey-minds take a correlation and upgrade it to a causal relationship 🐒

The peril of “causal upgrades”
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I was working with a client who was having a tough time of it at work.

People weren’t all that nice. There was a fair bit of dickish, ego-based behaviour going around and it was all a bit stressful. Verging on ‘toxic.’

We can all relate, because we’ve all been there.

They wanted to know what to do about it; how to respond. How to feel less under attack all the time, basically.

So we slowed down and started to look at the MECHANICS of how this workplace situation was being experienced.

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