Catch the Lie
How to Stop Overthinking and Believe What's Actually TrueBy Kyrie Anderson
Length3h 47m
About this audiobook
Your brain is not your friend.
It is not designed to make you happy, or to tell you the truth, or to accurately report what's real. It is designed to keep you alive — and four hundred million years of evolution never got the memo that you're not being chased by a predator, you're just lying awake at 2:47 a.m. running a scenario about a text you sent three hours ago.
Catch the Lie is a clear-eyed, evidence-based guide to the four specific lies your brain tells you on a loop — Anxiety, Doubt, Catastrophe, and Comparison — and what fifty years of cognitive science actually says about disarming them. Drawing on the work of Aaron Beck, Daniel Kahneman, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Judson Brewer, Kyrie Anderson translates decades of clinical research into the Thought Trial: five concrete questions you can run on any lying thought, starting tonight.
This is not a spiritual book. There's no mysticism here, no non-dual philosophy, no instruction to simply "stop thinking." This is a practical, sometimes uncomfortable look at why your mind malfunctions in a world it was never built for — and a specific, testable method for building the gap between what your brain says and what you choose to believe.
You won't become a different person. You'll become the same person, with a lot less suffering manufactured by your own thoughts.
Your brain is already lying to you. Time to start catching it.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length3 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter
2Introduction
3The Brain as Unreliable Narrator
4Who this book is for
5Who this book is not for
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6How the book is organized
7A note on examples
8What I hope you get from this book
9Chapter 1
10Your Brain Is Not Your Friend
11What your brain actually is
12What the research says about this
13The three jobs of your brain that are working against you
14Why believing the brain makes everything worse
15What Rachel did, briefly
16Try this: Notice One Story Today
17The Takeaway
18Chapter 2
19The Four Lies
20Why naming them matters
21Lie 1: The Anxiety Lie
22Lie 2: The Doubt Lie
23Lie 3: The Catastrophe Lie
24Lie 4: The Comparison Lie
25How the Four Lies work together
26What the Thought Trial does
27Try this: Catch One Lie Today
28The Takeaway
29Chapter 3
30Why the Glitch Exists
31System 1 and System 2
32The negativity bias
33The brain's preference for false positives
34Why modern life makes the glitch worse
35Why this is actually good news
36Try this: Label the System
37The Takeaway
38Chapter 4
39The Anxiety Lie
40What the Anxiety Lie says, and how to recognize it
41What the research says about this
42Why you cannot reason your way out of the Anxiety Lie
43The three specific moves
44What Daniel did
45Try this: The Alarm Log
46The Takeaway
47Chapter 5
48The Doubt Lie
49The inner voice research
50What the Doubt Lie actually says
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