In Eastern Europe strangers and acquaintances tell you your project won't ever work. Those that love you quietly take you aside and tell you it will work. In the US strangers & acquaintances tell you it will work. Those that love you quietly take you aside and tell you it won't.
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I think toxic positivity is very dangerous in one's closest advisors.
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Are you saying that in Eastern Europe your loved ones will *falsely* tell you things will work?
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& people take public opinion much more seriously than opinion of loved ones, which barely matters.
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Whether people take public opinion or that of loved ones more seriously seems significantly culture dependent.
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“Mental health” should not just be considered having positive feelings.
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Ok I just meant positive feelings. Samo, what did you mean?
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If pressed I might speculate Eastern European approach is better for mental health and the the American one for accumulating wealth.