The main one, perceiving successful people and material success as not being bad/morally unacceptable. I would have said 15 years ago it's really specific to gr

The main one, perceiving successful people and material success as not being bad/morally unacceptable. I would have said 15 years ago it's really specific to growing up in Russia or the like, but I think it's getting more and more relevant in the current zeitgeist in the USA. That material success means a person is probably some sort of a criminal, a swindler or at the very least got lucky, is the general sentiment in Russia, and to be fair in the 90ies and even more so in Soviet times it was... more justified than in most modern societies. However, aside from being mostly false, it's a really harmful and useless mindset. I actually changed my mind via a circuitous route, by reading some self-help book (I don't even remember why I would have done that, very unlike me then) and getting way into GTD/self-help/lifehacker for a year or so. After course correction back into sanity, I was left with an implementation of GTD that works for me, a real job, and generally a much healthier perception of work and success. It did wonders both in my actual life but also made me way happier. Combined with, from my anti-social times, still not caring too much about status symbols and such. It's great. Second and weirder, and much later, one, is (mostly) embracing absurdism/nihilism. For a long time after I realized there's no god, I couldn't fully accept humanism cause it seemed arbitrary, so the fact that life has no intrinsic meaning whatsoever really disturbed me. I wonder if this is the stage of irreligion where people who don't just ignore the question get into ideologies and spiritual woo... if you don't do that, there's almost like a semi-dark valley you have to cross when you know intellectually life is utterly meaningless, but you haven't really internalized it so you keep looking for meaning. If you get stuck there, you will probably be less happy than you would be otherwise, but if you keep going you come out on the other side much happier and without brain fog of looking for "meaning". I wouldn't claim I came ALL the way thru, but definitely a ways.