"Ignoring things is problematic because your brain doesn't want things ignored. It wants them acknowledged. YOUR BRAIN WANTS THINGS ACKNOWLEDGED. This is the most important thing to remember."
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"When I was in actual therapy, I used the same approach. I was proud of knowing what I felt, and wanted to impress therapists with not being like “those other clueless patients”.
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"A different failure mode of public self-therapy is — when you stop caring about therapy after a while. When you turn your therapy account into a purely conversational account. When you try to show off how good you are at therapy. When you try to get more followers."
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"Turning into a “wise” advice-account is not useful. But sometimes saying things you already know __is__ useful — because saying them solidifies them in your head."
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"Well, fuck tomorrow’s me in advance. I don’t like him and whatever he will say. This is explicitly to him: Fuck you. Whatever you come up with, you will be wrong and dishonest and your motivation will be corrupt."
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"If you always have to look like you know what you're talking about, you can't change your mind easily." "You start thinking about how you should only say things that you can justify, and boom, you can no longer __figure__ anything out"
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"Utilitarianism pushes you to care about as few diverse things as possible, because then decision-making becomes easier" "So utilitarianism pushes you towards treating more and more things as interchangeable and fewer and fewer things as sacred"
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