As I reviewed the fallacies discussed in the chapter, I was excited because I have learned about them in my previous comm class. A lot of them definitely has showed up in my intrapersonal communication. The two that show up the most is fear of catastrophic failures and helplessness. Usually, when I'm about to do a task that requires a great amount of work and consequences if it's less than perfect, I think about extreme situations that will result in me failing horribly. I do this on almost every speech, presentation, or interview I involve myself in. Also, when I feel overwhelmed and stress about school or my personal life, I tend to have the fallacy of helplessness because I resort into thinking that there is nothing I can do about my problems and I will just fail. I end up beating myself up and being extremely sad about it. After I have read the ways to challenge the fallacies I fall into, I believe I can better my intrapersonal communication because I can use self-talk to reassure myself that everything is going to be okay and there will be a solution to whatever problem it is.
Hi Hermione Weasley! I enjoyed reading your post. I agree with you that we all have fallacies in our communication and it is perfectly natural. For example even the strongest of the speakers also get anxious before public speaking. Like one time President Obama who one of the charismatic speakers said that even he gets nervous before his speeches, but he keeps reassuring himself that the speech is going to be rocking. Typically we suffer from fallacies in our weak areas, so overcoming them makes us improvise our potential in the identified weak areas of communication. Yes self-talk is one of my strongest strategies too. Self-talk helps in boosting confidence and reassuring as you said that everything is going to be ok, keep it cool, and just do it.
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