This is a great thread and surfaced some memories of what I was like as an adolescent (teens through early 20s).https://twitter.com/VincentHorn/status/975390306869960706 …
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Well, that ought to be a benefit. A lot of people never get there. Too sheltered. Never held to account for their mistakes. Or they're embedded in systems of inequity where the consequences of their errors are born by others.
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Learning to accept that when people are wrong they are usually wrong for reasons that are benign, correctable, and understandable has been the real cure for my cynicism. Learning to view my own errors in that light has really chilled out some of my neuroticism too.
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Still, there is a certain sense in not disposing of _all_ cynical thoughts. They can sometimes to protective. There really are shitty people out there who you ought to be able to protect yourself from by sensing their shittiness ahead of time. Just don't over-feed it.
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