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If something is a game to you things become way easier. You can tap in to that feeling even when something is more serious. Especially useful for job intervie
by anotheryou 7y ago
If something is a game to you things become way easier.
You can tap in to that feeling even when something is more serious.
Especially useful for job interviews, salary discussions, not taking a business emergencies too personal, but also for flirting (though especially in love the "seriousness" of the situation can overwhelm you).
Sadly I have no secrete for you on how to experience this view or feeling a first time.
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Professionals are not as perfect as one might think.
Helps with imposter syndrome, with understanding how much more you know about your body than your doctor and with seeing the value in a plurality of expert opinions.
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It's OK to be "mediocre"
Another one to cope with success stories of the lucky and privileged ones everywhere and the expectations of others towards you. Success would be nice, but there are bigger joys in life and the cost/risk/benefit calculation for making it big just doesn't cut it.
And having no picture book career doesn't mean to be normcore¹ either.
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Sophistication in taste can make it diverge from what is purely pleasant
This one is a more personal one and more the revelation of a dilemma than a revelation itself. I think if you are really in to art/music/food there will be less overlap between tickling your brain and soothing pure aesthetics/pop/kitsch.
I think this also drives many good artists out of pop culture and in to obscurity.
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¹ Good (arty) article about it:
"It used to be possible to be special — to sustain unique differences through time, relative to a certain sense of audience.
As long as you were different from the people around you, you were safe. But the Internet and globalization fucked this up
for everyone." https://khole.net/dl?v=4 https://khole.net/dl?v=4 (pdf)