Week 3 Discussion Post 2 Document

I think of the four social errors I self-sabotage myself with the social expectancy. I

tend to put a lot of pressure on myself when it comes to accomplishments, which

then aects me in being unsuccessful. For many years I battled with myself about

my age and where I should be at dierent age points. When I realized I was not

meeting those milestones for one reason or another (not always negative) I put more

and more pressure on myself until I could not lead myself in a good direction

anymore. I think we expect a lot from ourselves because we are constantly in a silent

competition with others. We are in#uenced day in and day out with $tness, celebrity,

de$nitely can remember using the popular appeal fallacy when asked a question in

my group at work in regards to politics. I do not follow much of politics, but in our

group we had some hardcore political people whom had a high interest and

involvement in politics. When asked about my opinions about the issues they have

discussed, I simply agreed, I did not want to appear as if I had no clue, and in reality

I had not an ounce of clue what they were talking about. Peer pressure played into

this to form my response.)

I found it most interesting that not only were we given de$nitions to these fallacies

or "social mistakes/biases" but we are also given a section on "Strategies to Avoid

Fallacies". This was interesting to me because it put these ideas of building self