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> you have some unresolved issues that you need to work through if you so desperately need to believe how transformative your work is going to be. I think thos
by fnord77 7y ago
> you have some unresolved issues that you need to work through if you so desperately need to believe how transformative your work is going to be.
I think those issues are called narcissism.
- hinkley 7y agoYou're not wrong, but it has a different timbre when low self esteem is at the root of it, and that's what I was thinking of in particular. You're basically attaching your identity (being okay with who you are, really) to a future event. One that you can influence but not really control. And I suspect it makes you easier to manipulate, and burnout all that much more powerful when it doesn't happen.