In my experience, calling yourself out on bullshit and addressing a problem is infinitely better than waiting for that bullshit to infect your perception and sabotage every attempt to improve your position.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha
Musings and books from a grunty overthinker
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Is that still in canada?
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Is that a reference to the political correctness controversy in Canada? Haha!
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So true… Recognizing your own bullshit is a very personal, introspective journey.
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Painful, too! 🙂
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Yes! That guilt…
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True, but sometimes I “step in it” firstly before I recognize it.
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You’re not alone! I’ve done that QUITE a bit! 🙂
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Yep! An American writer (whose names I cannot find at the moment) once wrote ‘Admit your mistakes before some exaggerates them’
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I’ll need to look this one up!
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There’s many hits on google but I can’t find one which attributes it to anyone (I remember seeing one, several years ago, possibly surname was ‘Edwards’)
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Google is nothing if not too much information at once.
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True and so many blind alleys! (and encounters with very odd people)
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Indeed! I call it constructive propaganda (although I think propaganda might by definition imply deception, so that might not be the right word for it)
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‘Stating your case’ (warts and all)?
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We could definitely use more of that. It’s incredible how easy it is to create a bullshit narrative in one’s mind and actually believe it. And once one starts believing their own bullshit, it might be too late to turn back, so we need to check ourselves way before we get there.
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Kind of the premise of psychology: we hide our true thoughts from ourselves. I happen to believe that. 🙂
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