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Hey guys, it’s Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts segment. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of “stinkin thinkin” and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the thinking pattern known as “Disqualifying the Positive.” We’ve all done this one, right?: “Sure I get A’s on all my tests, but I made a C on this one. I’m just a C student.” “This person said he didn’t like me. I don’t have any friends. Sure, lots of people hang out with me, but they don’t count.” “I’ve just not ever been happy. Sure there were times when I thought I was happy, but I don’t really think I was now.” And on and on. Disqualifying the positive is a particularly insidious distorted way of thinking because it allows you to gloss over literally mountains of evidence to the contrary of your other distorted ways of thinking. Why? Because, regardless of all that evidence, none of it