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While this might be true to some extent, I don't care. I still prefer the ambient positivity of classic self improvement. When you tell yourself that you suck y
by onreact-com 17y ago
While this might be true to some extent, I don't care. I still prefer the ambient positivity of classic self improvement. When you tell yourself that you suck you actually do suck then. When you tell yourself you're great you got at least a chance to become great.
- whatusername 17y agoActually - I kindof liked it. I'm very argumentative - and I'm happy to play devil's advocate. The article suggests that you use cognitive dissonance - rather than telling yourself you're awesome and then feeling sucky because you don't live up to that -- tell yourself you suck and then feel better / prove yourself wrong. Interesting food for thought at least
- J_McQuade 17y agoI don't know - I find that telling yourself you're great just leads to ambiguity; I mean, what exactly are you great at? As an observation (and whether or not it's right), we tend to view the world in terms of people who 'are' great or people who 'suck at' things, if you see what I mean. As such, "I'm so great - why can't I write this parser" becomes a much less helpful notion than "I suck at writing parsers" because the former implies failure whereas the latter implies a much greater scope for improvement. I admit that it's all a bit hand-wavey, but by and large I find that my positive thoughts tend to be general ("Ain't life grand?", "Man, this world is awesome") whereas the negatives often settle on specifics ("My handwriting is embarrassing!", "I don't comment my code nearly enough") - I think we can all agree that knowing specifically where things are going wrong is far more useful than knowing were they're going right in general.