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
1Introduction
72What the Comparison Lie actually says
2Introduction
73Why social media specifically amplifies the lie
3The Brain as Unreliable Narrator
74The specific moves
4Who this book is for
75What Sarah did
5Who this book is not for
76Try this: The Comparison Audit
Show all chaptersShow less
6How the book is organized
77The Takeaway
7A note on examples
78Chapter 8
8What I hope you get from this book
79Question One: Is It Actually True?
9Chapter 1
80Aaron Beck and the thought record
10Your Brain Is Not Your Friend
81How to ask the question
11What your brain actually is
82A worked example
12What the research says about this
83Why this question is difficult
13The three jobs of your brain that are working against you
84What to do when the evidence is mixed
14Why believing the brain makes everything worse
85The quick version (for when writing is impossible)
15What Rachel did, briefly
86What this question cannot do
16Try this: Notice One Story Today
87Try this: Seven Days of Evidence
17The Takeaway
88The Takeaway
18Chapter 2
89Chapter 9
19The Four Lies
90Question Two: Is It the Whole Truth?
20Why naming them matters
91What the Half-Truth sounds like
21Lie 1: The Anxiety Lie
92Why this matters
22Lie 2: The Doubt Lie
93The question
23Lie 3: The Catastrophe Lie
94A clinical name for what we are doing
24Lie 4: The Comparison Lie
95What balanced thinking sounds like
25How the Four Lies work together
96When the Half-Truth is a longer-term pattern
26What the Thought Trial does
97Why this question matters particularly for the Catastrophe Lie
27Try this: Catch One Lie Today
98Try this: Balanced Thinking for a Week
28The Takeaway
99The Takeaway
29Chapter 3
100Chapter 10
30Why the Glitch Exists
101Question Three: Whose Voice Is It?
31System 1 and System 2
102What the question sounds like
32The negativity bias
103Where these voices come from
33The brain's preference for false positives
104Why this matters practically
34Why modern life makes the glitch worse
105How to trace the voice
35Why this is actually good news
106When the voice is a culture rather than a person
36Try this: Label the System
107What this question does for each of the Four Lies
37The Takeaway
108What Emma did with this question
38Chapter 4
109Try this: The Voice Inventory
39The Anxiety Lie
110The Takeaway
40What the Anxiety Lie says, and how to recognize it
111Chapter 11
41What the research says about this
112Question Four: Would I Say This to Someone I Love?
42Why you cannot reason your way out of the Anxiety Lie
113Why this question works
43The three specific moves
114The research on self-compassion
44What Daniel did
115What self-compassion actually looks like
45Try this: The Alarm Log
116The specific move
46The Takeaway
117Why this has been so hard
47Chapter 5
118The specific friend
48The Doubt Lie
119What Jenna did
49The inner voice research
120Try this: The Letter to Yourself
50What the Doubt Lie actually says
121The Takeaway
51The impostor pattern
122Chapter 12
52Why the Doubt Lie has this specific shape
123Question Five: What Would I Do If I Knew It Was False?
53How to tell Doubt Lie from genuine caution
124Why insight alone does not work
54The specific moves
125The mechanism of the fifth question
55What Emma did
126ACT and committed action
56Try this: The Doubt Ledger
127What this looks like in practice
57The Takeaway
128The deeper version: values-aligned action
58Chapter 6
129A note on when the thought might be accurate
59The Catastrophe Lie
130The committed action sequence
60What the Catastrophe Lie says
131The final integration
61Why your brain does this
132Try this: The Committed Action Protocol
62Judson Brewer's habit-loop account
133The Takeaway
63The specific shape of catastrophic simulation
134Conclusion
64Why the Catastrophe Lie is not actually helping you prepare
135Living as the Judge, Not the Defendant
65The specific moves
136What you have now
66What Marco did
137The first ninety days
67Try this: The Simulation Audit
138After the ninety days
68The Takeaway
139A final note on the voice
69Chapter 7
140What to do tomorrow
70The Comparison Lie
141Acknowledgments
71What the research actually shows
365 Days of Hope and Healing for Your Body, Mind, and SoulJoan Hunter8h 48m$10 · $0.00
Rewrite the Mother CodeDr. Gertrude Lyons10h 55m$25
The Best of Les Brown Audio CollectionLes Brown8h 12m$65
Swayam Ki AwaazPrem Rawat8h 34m$26 · $0.00
Be Wild Be FreeAmber Fossey26m$7 · $0.00
Finding Your VoiceMannette Morgan8h 10m$20
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m$7 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m5 (2)$29 · $0.00
AretéBrian Johnson19h 57m$35
Spiritual AnatomyDaaji Kamlesh D. Patel9h 47m$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m5 (1)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m$26 · $0.00
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the HorseCharlie Mackesy58m$11 · $0.00
Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m$20
Legally YoursManasi Chaudhari8h 52m$29 · $0.00
CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m$26 · $0.00
Life on the BridgeKaelynn Partlow5h 40m$24 · $0.00
From Questioning to KnowingLisa Barnett5h 34m$17
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m$24 · $0.00
I've Been to the MountaintopMartin Luther King48m5 (1)$11 · $0.00
AretéBrian Johnson19h 57m$35
Ullathin KuralPrem Rawat8h 17m$18 · $0.00
Vax FactsPaul Thomas MD, Deedee Hoover10h 26m$25
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h$8 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m$29 · $0.00
TerraformPropaganda5h 39m$24 · $0.00
Hour of the HeartIrvin D. Yalom, Benjamin Yalom8h 19m5 (1)$26 · $0.00
The Thomas Sowell ReaderThomas Sowell14h 51m$25
So You Want to Talk about RaceIjeoma Oluo7h 41m$17
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m$29 · $0.00
Level UpRob Dial7h 42m$26 · $0.00
As a JewSarah Hurwitz8h 36m$26 · $0.00
Burn the HaystackJennie Young, PhD9h 30m$29 · $0.00
Woman and the New Race (Annotated)Margaret Sanger6h 30m$2 · $0.00
Good InsideBecky Kennedy9h 55m$29 · $0.00
Du Bois: EssaysW.E.B. Du Bois6h 22m$1 · $0.00
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)Edward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge5h 59m$2 · $0.00
Valley of the BirdtailAndrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson10h 1m$29 · $0.00
You may also like
Do Hard ThingsSteve Magness8h 54m$29 · $0.00
Freeing Yourself from AnxietyTamar E. Chansky PhD10h 32m$20 · $0.00
How Not to Kill YourselfSet Sytes, Faith G. Harper PhD2h 41m$15
The Courage to RiseLiz Arch7h 58m$26 · $0.00
Tired as F*ckCaroline Dooner8h 31m$26 · $0.00
StretchScott Sonenshein7h 58m$26 · $0.00
With proper training to more energy and health: Muscles with brains and energy to enjoy! Avoid training mistakes, reduce your weaknesses and strengthen your physical and mental performance.Gerhard J. Mandalka4h 41m$20 · $0.00
The Unwritten Rules of Women's LeadershipHelen Appleby3h 39m$18 · $0.00
The F*ck It DietCaroline Dooner7h 38m$26 · $0.00
How to Not Always Be WorkingCody Cook-Parrott1h 58m$16 · $0.00
How to Be a PatientSana Goldberg9h 43m$29 · $0.00
Land the Right Job, Right Now!Christian Lovell3h 36m$20
Deliberate CalmJacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, Michiel Kruyt9h 10m$29 · $0.00
Well-being in the workplaceSarah Cook1h 37m$22 · $0.00
Practical Optimism That WorksRobert7h 2m$6 · $0.00
Mental ToughnessEric Holt1h 43m4 (1) Only with Ultra
The EnchiridionEpictetus0m$1 · $0.00
Dear Anxiety, Let's Break UpAmanda Porter3h 55m$10 · $0.00
Profitable PostsJideon F Marques7h 34m$11 · $0.00
Autoimmunity and the Good GirlsSara Hirsh Bordo7h 51m$26 · $0.00