I dunno, maybe my brain is wired differently but this sounds like fluff. Maybe I've been fortunate that growing up, I've had stoic figures in my life and throu

I dunno, maybe my brain is wired differently but this sounds like fluff. Maybe I've been fortunate that growing up, I've had stoic figures in my life and through their beliefs/actions solved problems through grit and hard work. I struggle to understand if people live their lives by looking themselves in a mirror and saying positive mantras and hoping that one day they will see themselves this way. I thought this was just the lore of movies. If a voice (myself or a anyone else) said "I love and accept myself, exactly as I am/I love my well lived-in body" and would suspect it was trying to trick me somehow/pulling my leg and I would laugh and tell it/them to F-off. I think my critical voice has gone from inwards to outwards. It doesn't say "You suck and you're an imposter", because it's been distracted by the so many examples of other people being so much more incompetent and lacking basic critical thinking skills, that even if I'm a complete screw up, I'm not that bad. e.g. lack of basic financial understanding, solving problems, tribal voting. I think I've come to realize if I want to fix certain things about me, that I've chosen (at this point in time) not to do it and to move on, but that I can revisit and try and fix it in the future.