#140 Distorted Thinking of the Mercury Signs

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Aries Mercury: The fortuneteller error (predicting a certain outcome and already treating it as fact)

Taurus Mercury: Tradition bias (thinking that which is old, established, or has tradition is automatically superior or safer)

Gemini Mercury: Labeling (putting everything into clearly defined categories, as if life was a lab experiment)

Cancer Mercury: Emotional Reasoning (concluding that emotions are reality, that the way you feel reflects the truth of the situation)

Leo Mercury: Personalization (interpreting everything as a reaction to or opinion about you, talking opinions personally)

Virgo Mercury: Filtering (taking out negative details and magnifying them)

Libra Mercury: Fallacy of Fairness (making sure that everything is 'fair and even', even though it's not that logical or fair in a particular situation)

Scorpio Mercury: Polarizing (only black and white, good or bad, perfection or failure, no middle ground, all or nothing thinking)

Sagittarius Mercury: Overgeneralization (coming to a general conclusion based on a single incident and preaching it without sufficient factual evidence)

Capricorn Mercury: "Should" Statements (holding on to dogmas/rules of how things or people should/ought to be, rather than seeing how they are)

Aquarius Mercury: Anti tradition bias (thinking that that which is old, established, or has tradition is automatically inferior or outdated)

Pisces Mercury: Heaven's Reward fallacy (expecting all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if somebody was keeping score)