Continuing our series on thought distortions, we will look at two more in the assumption category this week - mind-reading and personalization.   

Mind-reading is assuming you know what someone else is thinking. And guess what? Sadly, we aren’t actually psychic.

When getting to the PCU and finding the cardiologist shaking her head as she reads your note on a mutual patient, you may think you know what’s in her mind. If you assume she is thinking, “This team doesn’t know what they’re doin...