Hey everyone,One thing that has been a real psychological unlock for me over the past year has been the ability to be okay with not being liked by everyone.I've always worried about people liking me or not, it has just always felt like a really important thing.It's a relatively common concern at school and university, but I've slowly realised it's actually far less productive than I thought. I rationalised my anxiety by thinking that trying to be liked by everyone was useful and would help me in life, but really it was just an internal ego battle, and an attempt to satisfy my innate desire to fit in and belong. The first time this internal narrative started to be really challenged was when I listened to Professor Steve Peters (a psychiatrist and the author of the Chimp Paradox) talk on the Diary of a CEO podcast.This is a little note I wrote on my phon when I listened to it last year.
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😢 How to Be Okay with Being Disliked
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Hey everyone,One thing that has been a real psychological unlock for me over the past year has been the ability to be okay with not being liked by everyone.I've always worried about people liking me or not, it has just always felt like a really important thing.It's a relatively common concern at school and university, but I've slowly realised it's actually far less productive than I thought. I rationalised my anxiety by thinking that trying to be liked by everyone was useful and would help me in life, but really it was just an internal ego battle, and an attempt to satisfy my innate desire to fit in and belong. The first time this internal narrative started to be really challenged was when I listened to Professor Steve Peters (a psychiatrist and the author of the Chimp Paradox) talk on the Diary of a CEO podcast.This is a little note I wrote on my phon when I listened to it last year.