Term

Personalization

A distortion in which you blame yourself for an event for which you are largely not responsible.

Feeling Good, David Burns

Explained in

• Feeling Good, David Burns
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

  In Seligman's model, as the authors present it: the belief that the trouble is all your fault.

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