there’s a kind of surprise people sometimes express like “how can [cool person] feel [anxieties] when they have [positive qualities]?”
it’s very simple. the [anxieties] are the *reason* they developed the [positive qualities]
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maybe there are people in some impossibly high echelon of society i’ve never met who are just good at stuff while having led entirely happy lives but everyone i’ve personally met with superpowers has trauma superpowers
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watch out for people with deep, flexible insight into the human condition. you only really get that by being so fucked up you have to achieve it just to function long-term
ones who are just faking it by mimicking the cultural idea of what it looks like are fine
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this is long and has additional context but:
"...skill in the world, albeit potentially fragile or brittle or highly contextually bounded. They might find this skill or region because something did go wrong/bad in childhood, so they’re desperately casting about..."
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I appreciate your epistemic humility, but I and most of the people I know are good at things but only feel a regular amount of bad about other things, in unrelated ways.
Perhaps this DOES make us an impossibly high echelon of society 🤔
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