Are protagonists born or made? Can you train or coach protagon-ism? Can you inspire a script-follower to have it, to discover it within themselves?
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Replying to @captain_mrs
protagonism is what it’s like to be human—except for very depressed people, nobody is the bad guy in their own story
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Replying to @choosy_mom
Nobody's the bad guy but plenty of people play minor parts Why don't people go off-script? Try to change things? Do something different if it hasn't worked before?
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Replying to @captain_mrs
on a cosmic or even historical scale almost everyone plays a minor role, though we each feel like the main character from the first person pov playing a major role (i.e. being influential, wealthy, famous) probably isn’t actually what most of us are looking for
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Replying to @choosy_mom
A major role isn't what I'm getting at I just want people to express some agency over their own lives and goals. Actually choose, actually decide, actually try. Not do or fail to do things that I know they know they will regret, if I asked them 3-4 critical coaching questions
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gotcha, i think i misinterpreted you the first time. i’ve definitely observed this frustrating lack of agency in myself tlp says it’s largely because people prefer dreaming about change to *actually changing* and ime that model basically describes it https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/06/amy_schumer_offers_you_a_look.html …
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