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Still the most worthwhile thing you can teach your child is to be overly confident.
And i would add, falsely modest. They won't REALLY be modest but if they can have loads of confidence and SEEM like they're modest, it's a really winning combo.
"I'm a quivering collection of the worst and least helpful emotions: fear, anxiety, terror, paranoia, indigestion, dishpan hands.."
I think in public I project way more confidence than I actually have because people tell me sometimes that I seem like a confident person. I constantly second guess myself and internally I'm quite anxious. Especially when things are going really well, I feel on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Two nights ago I was awake at 2am googling "late onset mental illness".
mooncalf wrote:I think in public I project way more confidence than I actually have because people tell me sometimes that I seem like a confident person. I constantly second guess myself and internally I'm quite anxious. Especially when things are going really well, I feel on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Two nights ago I was awake at 2am googling "late onset mental illness".
Not confidence but it took me a long time in life to learn that a lot of people's perception of me was that i was snobbish or too cool for them because im not overly expressive.. I have (always never) felt too cool for anybody in my life. It's usually quite the opposite. my point i guess is your perception of yourself and what you actually project can be quite different.
"I'm a quivering collection of the worst and least helpful emotions: fear, anxiety, terror, paranoia, indigestion, dishpan hands.."
You know how you get the robots stuck guarding each other to get the doll in Geno Dome? That's why we always have to make sure we have at least one white dude from our team in contentious meetings. Usually me.
I pay tax to help pay for things like police..fire..parks..but it goes to Ferguson like people and foreigners who are scamming our stupid government that is full of pasta thieves like this guy
i dunno im speaking from a place as a person with high anxiety/social issues so having developed more confidence as ive gotten older has definitely been a good thing im not talkin like closing the big account every day type of confidence
most of us have to be somewhat confident (or pretend too) in order to, like, not be thrown under the bus and shitted on by everybody. even if we're not really confident. it's all a game! a sheltered game of the mind
men are so fragile i think just so many of them are too dumb to recognize the fragility in each other so they just reify it, thinkin, 'oh wow this guy is so confident! like at least as confident as IIIIII seem to be, so he must be sooooo on top of shit! finance! sports coat! goal-based conversations and interactions!'
Stuntman wrote:This is what happens when you're an adolescent and you don't have a forest or the internet.
stop me if you've heard this one but at my last school, one of my coworkers was SO confident that he told me my name was what HE said it was, not what I said it was! my principal also made some 'team building' game thing where according to him all the men were lions because they were in charge of pride ! i told him it was a sexist game and he told me i was really proving myself to be not a lion, so i told him that if he wanted to say i was matriarchal he shoulda just called me a lemur and he was all, 'what, why??? haven't you seen zootopia?' fuck that dude
Stuntman wrote:This is what happens when you're an adolescent and you don't have a forest or the internet.
mancubz wrote:men are so fragile i think just so many of them are too dumb to recognize the fragility in each other so they just reify it, thinkin, 'oh wow this guy is so confident! like at least as confident as IIIIII seem to be, so he must be sooooo on top of shit! finance! sports coat! goal-based conversations and interactions!'
i wonder if really confident people don't have the metanarrative running through their head do all interactions need an over-arching interpretation? or if they have mastered the metanarrative to serve their needs (i am a rockstar. that was a gamechanger.) does reflexive acknowledging that an interaction with someone is douchey and why it's douchey serve my best interest? i think the emotional reaction to an encounter is valuable (what a douche!) and instinctual, but the contemplative life (how has the world created this interaction and what are it's problems and how could it be improved?) may not be valuable most of the time
Milk » Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:46 pm 
