The cause of our emotions and our behaviors is not the situation itself but our thinking about the situation.

Anxiety, guilt, or indecision tend to interfere with clear decision-making.

Identify your specific irrational belief, then question it by trying to come up with evidence to support it.

Suppose as a result of having many job interviews, you get two promising offers. What is a constructive approach to making a decision?

First, remind yourself of the causality principle, as stated by the Roman philosopher Epictetus, of the cause of our emotions and behaviors: It's never situations themselves that are the fundamental cause of our emotions and our behaviors, but rather it's our thinking about the situation that's the issue, specifically our demands or irrational........

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