One of the six villains in Distortion Detective
The Splitter
All-or-nothing thinking
“Perfect or garbage!”
- What it means:
- Sees things as either perfect or terrible, with nothing in between.
- Sounds like:
- “I didn't get 100%, so I did terribly.”
- Try asking:
- “On a scale of 1 to 10, where does this really land?”
- The skill:
- Finding the middle ground, and valuing effort and partial progress.
In the game
Jordan falls into this trap. The kid's job is to catch it:
“Not getting an A means I'm terrible at math. Everyone else is smarter than me.”
Easy to confuse with
- The Magnifier: The Splitter only sees the extremes. The Magnifier over-weighs one flaw.
The villains are the thoughts, not the kid. A three-step routine for catching any trap →
