smarter people construct more complicated defense + coping mechanismshttps://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1169313766401380352 …
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right. the paralysis comes from a fear of not knowing what the right thing to do is. this is the sort of thing you're especially likely to develop if you were smart enough to know what the right thing to do was for a long time, so you never had to deal with not knowing growing up
(he said, using a second-person pronoun as if he weren't just talking about himself)
