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Many people, when they feel some form of pain or anger or sadness, drop everything and attend to numbing out whatever they’re feeling. Their goal is to get back to “feeling good” again as quickly as possible, even if that means substances or deluding themselves or returning to their shitty values.
Learn to sustain the pain you’ve chosen. When you choose a new value, you are choosing to introduce a
— Sep 19, 2019 10:30AM
Learn to sustain the pain you’ve chosen. When you choose a new value, you are choosing to introduce a
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Let’s say you have an anger problem. You get pissed off at the stupidest, more inane stuff, and you have no idea why. And the fact that you get pissed off so easily starts to piss you off even more. And then, in your petty rage, you realize that being angry all the time makes you as a shallow and mean person, and you hate this; you hate it so much that you get angry at yourself. Now look at you:
— Aug 10, 2019 09:44AM
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But when you stop and really think about it, conventional life advice—all the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time—is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasizes them for you.
— Aug 10, 2019 09:43AM
