taught myself to stop checking if other ppl think I’m socially acceptable a long time ago. Worrying about being cringe is the enemy of art, failure tolerance is essential for creativity. Deciding not to be mad at ppl enjoying life is ok 🤍
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This is a decision I feel like I have to keep making; the caring keeps creeping up on me. How do you make this more permanent?
For me, it's a process of continually giving myself the love and affirmation I seek, rather than seeking it from others.
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By remembering these people don't know you, just an image of you which often has nothing even to do with your actions or beliefs. Also surround yourself with people who do know you and can really call you out when you do bad (or 'cringe') things
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I think it naturally emerges from strong fundamentals, when you stop outsourcing your sense of worth at the instinctive level, at the level of framing
Saying this as someone who does not have a strong internal sense of self worth
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Posting about how much you don’t care about what other people think about you is apparently a good strategy to fortify and sustain such attitudes
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I think it’s understanding that it comes in waves. That if the caring creeps up you can remember as an optimist you have the opportunity to not care tomorrow. Knowing yourself as dynamic and imperfect across time.
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