Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #12: Wrong Thinking vs Right Thinking
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Wrong Thinking That Impedes Your Learning Progress; Right Thinking That Speeds Up Your Progress All too often learners are held back from complete success by obstacles of their own making through just plain wrong thinking. We call these kinds of wrong thinking cognitive distortions. They creep into our thinking rather naturally, but we need to fight them off because w hen we let cognitive distortions creep into our thinking, we end up interpreting events in such a way that fuels emotions such as anxiety, depression, or anger—and that puts up barriers to language learning success. For the sake of space, in this book, I am including in the sections that follow those cognitive distortions that I have found to be especially pertinent for language learners. If you are interested, you can Google the term, cognitive distortion , and find quite a long list of cognitive distortions that researchers have found. All-or-Not