20/08/2026
You get 8/10 on a test.
Which number does your brain focus on?
8 correct?
Or...
2 wrong?
This week in Master Your Mind we've been exploring maximising and minimising.
It's a thinking pattern where we can make one part of an experience seem much bigger than it really is while making another part seem much smaller.
And once you start noticing it, you see it everywhere.
Eight things go well and one goes badly.
"Today was awful."
Someone receives ten positive comments and one critical one.
Guess which one they remember?
So here's a question we've been practising:
"Am I looking at the whole picture or have I zoomed in on just one part of it?"
Psychology becomes incredibly useful when young people can take an idea out of the classroom and start recognising it in their own lives.
That's exactly what we're doing in our Master Your Mind: Thinking Traps course.
Can you think of ways in which you have maximising and minimising this week?
