Do people not understand that enthusing about how the thing you want to tell them about is the best thing ever and is miraculously wonderfully life changing is actively offputting? Or am I genuinely anomalous in reacting that way?
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I've been trying to do a kind of skeptical-but-interested mining for useful concepts on a bunch of stuff recently. e.g. I very nearly noped out of Focusing entirely but decided to persevere through it after the intro to it was basically "Hey my cult is pretty cool, want to join?"
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Yeah, figured out a while ago that there's a lot of good stuff underneath crazy/unqualified claims. Ditto with self-help authors that come off like assholes.
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I downplay good tv shows for this very reason
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