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13-02-2026, 01:53 PM
For example, 'just be yourself'.
I can't think of anything that would cause a person more problems than fighting against your own nature, fighting against yourself.
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I posted this supposed Henry Kissinger quote in 2016. "Accept everything about yourself" and some user replied: "That's actually true." I wondered whether the user was trolling, because this level of self acceptance was literally incomprehensible to me.
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The better advice than 'Just be yourself' is 'Interpret everything about yourself in the way that is most favorable'.
Though the interpretation can also not be a total lie, cause you'd be seen as delusional.
For example, if you are ugly as fuck, you cannot say "The reason I'm treated badly is that I'm too handsome."
Better to say: "I'm ugly, but some people will like me for that."
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Jfl, in their language this means “I’m hardly ever authentic, but I will advise others to be so.”
It's almost the equivalent of a porn star advising you to abstain from sex, the difference is that the porn star is perhaps more aware of it
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everything changes, including yourself
so, for example, maybe it's not such a good idea to be satisfied with 'being yourself' if yourself is a whiny fag. do better.
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Just own whatever. Normdroids cut some slack to original people