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metaphortunate) wrote2011-12-14 04:57 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2011-12-14 04:57 pm
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Dear brain...
Dear brain,
Stop standing in the shower telling yourself that you suck. I know why you do this. It is an effort to assert some control over the situation by demonstrating that at least you do not suck so much that you are a Dunning-Kruger victim and at least you are good enough to know that you suck. However, it has to stop. Evidence has shown that we react poorly to insults and self-hatred. We don't rise to prove ourselves worthy, we just try to go hide under the covers. This means that this behavior is just the ego trying to make itself feel better at the expense of the creative energy and the willpower and the bits that actually do the work. Suck it up, ego: it's time to treat ourself with compassion and friendly encouragement. Including you. I know you are only trying to pull together a coherent narrative so that the rest of the brain can keep coasting along on an unexamined delusion of security instead of more rational, but not useful, existential terror, and can spend its energy on things that it can actually affect. And Lord knows this filtering is uphill work in this crazy random-ass universe! I know it's scary but you're doing a good job. Thanks, brain!
ETA: Guys, I'm fine. I actually posted this because it was an example of me successfully talking myself down and feeling better and I thought that was kind of awesome. Thanks for being concerned, though!
Stop standing in the shower telling yourself that you suck. I know why you do this. It is an effort to assert some control over the situation by demonstrating that at least you do not suck so much that you are a Dunning-Kruger victim and at least you are good enough to know that you suck. However, it has to stop. Evidence has shown that we react poorly to insults and self-hatred. We don't rise to prove ourselves worthy, we just try to go hide under the covers. This means that this behavior is just the ego trying to make itself feel better at the expense of the creative energy and the willpower and the bits that actually do the work. Suck it up, ego: it's time to treat ourself with compassion and friendly encouragement. Including you. I know you are only trying to pull together a coherent narrative so that the rest of the brain can keep coasting along on an unexamined delusion of security instead of more rational, but not useful, existential terror, and can spend its energy on things that it can actually affect. And Lord knows this filtering is uphill work in this crazy random-ass universe! I know it's scary but you're doing a good job. Thanks, brain!
ETA: Guys, I'm fine. I actually posted this because it was an example of me successfully talking myself down and feeling better and I thought that was kind of awesome. Thanks for being concerned, though!
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You are awesome. As per usual.
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