In the words of Shirzad Chamine, Stamford University Professor and founder of Positive Intelligence,

"Saboteurs are your internal thought enemies. They represent a set of automatic habits of your mind, each with its own voice, beliefs, and assumptions that work against your best interest."

Lately, in my processing of the work of Positive Intelligence, I have been catching my saboteurs or negative belief patterns and interested in acknowledging them quickly, I have become increasingly interested in returning to the Buddhist origins of the monkey mind and its relevance in my study.