I avoid limiting thoughts completely

For weeks after moving house people still reach for the light switch on the wrong wall. The hand has a map, the map is out of date, and it doesn't consult anyone before acting.

Limiting thoughts run on the same machinery. They are accurate reports about a room you no longer live in — the version of you who genuinely couldn't do that yet, filed and never updated.

The tell is that they arrive as statements of fact rather than as forecasts. *I'm not the sort of person who* is a prediction wearing the clothes of a measurement. Worth checking when the survey was last done.