Your brain pushes headlines at you all day. Read them like a skeptic, not a fan.

Your own mind issues confident summaries all day: that went badly, they are annoyed with you, you are behind. They arrive in headline form, short and certain, with the evidence left out entirely. Believing them on sight is the same mistake as believing any headline without reading on, and the internal ones are harder to catch because they sound like knowledge rather than opinion.

Catch one this week and ask what the evidence actually is. Usually it is a tone in one message or a face you read quickly. Downgrading it from fact to guess takes about ten seconds.