Good point. I missed that angle.
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Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf @thethinkersmith
1. It *is* normal. 2. This sentence is to help people acknowledge how they're feeling, instead of add pressure to put on a brave face and suppress it. 3. Those reactions aren't self-deprecating. That's like saying your emotions are wrong, instead of the ideas that cause them.
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Noah Drucker Retweeted Noah Drucker
This is also a valid point. Perhaps instead of saying "not normal" we can say "not required." The same point I wanted to make with
@webdevMasonhttps://twitter.com/DruckerPPS/status/1242483787017019394?s=19 …Noah Drucker added,
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Replying to @DruckerPPS @reasonisfun and
In my experience, people who try to either foment or suppress their own fear end up mostly failing *and* bringing worse outcomes upon themselves
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Replying to @webdevMason @reasonisfun and
Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
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Replying to @DruckerPPS @reasonisfun and
I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
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Replying to @webdevMason @DruckerPPS and
So if you force yourself to "sit with" a "flee this" signal, you're not actually accepting your feelings at all.
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Replying to @webdevMason @reasonisfun and
And at the same time, if we're not constantly examining the validity of the "flee this" response and exploring the unconscious material fueling it, we spend our whole life fleeing, often from life itself.
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Replying to @DruckerPPS @reasonisfun and
People don't flee nearly enough.
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Replying to @webdevMason @reasonisfun and
On this we will have to politely agree to disagree. I think people spend their entire lives fleeing. Usually just ineffectively and from shadows.
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I think you're thinking about this way more metaphorically than I am. People should physically get out of situations that no longer work for them. If you think they do this on too much of a hair trigger, I think we model the world too differently to make any sense of each other.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @webdevMason and
also a problem with time preference - e.g. I could take an action that would lead to better circumstances, but will cause me a tremendous amount of anxiety in the short term
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