For years I was unbelievably cynical. Crippling levels of cynicism, really. It's easy to see now that it's a corruption from a kind of hypertrophy of a healthy skeptical instinct. It can become unhealthy if overfed.
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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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