In mind reading, you make assumptions (without evidence) about how people are reacting to you. “I can tell by their faces, they’re getting ready to fire me.” “She thinks I’m immature, or she wouldn’t ask me these questions.” These assumptions are usually born of intuition, hunches, vague misgivings, or one or two past experiences. Mind reading depends on projection. You imagine that people feel as bad about you as you do about yourself. As a shame-based person, you are critical and judgmental of yourself. You assume others feel the same way about you.
