Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose, they want to keep you down.
Jordan Peterson on why social anxiety is really a self-focus problem:
@jordanbpeterson explains that social anxiety is fundamentally driven by excessive self-referential thinking.
"If you're feeling social anxiety in a situation, part of the reason for that is because you're thinking about how you're feeling."
He points to fascinating research on language patterns and mental health. When you analyze the words people use in speech and writing, a striking pattern emerges: the more someone refers to themselves, the more likely they are to be depressed or psychotic.
"You can actually distinguish with 75% accuracy between people who are clinically depressed or clinically psychotic and people who aren't by the number of times they refer to themselves."
The core insight is simple but powerful: "The more you think about yourself, the more miserable you are."
But Peterson warns against the obvious trap in trying to fix this. You can't just tell yourself to stop thinking about yourself. That's still thinking about yourself, and you'll fall into the same pit.
Instead, he offers a practical redirect:
"If what you decide to do is to pay way more attention to the other person and try to make them comfortable, then that social anxiety will disappear."
The solution is a redirection. Rather than fighting your own self-consciousness, you shift your entire attention outward. Make the people around you more comfortable. Focus on them, not on how you're coming across.
It's a counterintuitive reframe: the cure for feeling awkward is caring less about your own performance and more about the person in front of you.
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@theionicXBT If you’re itching to become exit liquidity, by all means follow this guy and shell out for his paid Discord. Odds are, it’s packed with his accomplices pumping the hype, while the remaining hopefuls cling to delusions and watch their portfolios bleed out..
@theionicXBT If you’re itching to become exit liquidity, by all means follow this guy and shell out for his paid Discord. Odds are, it’s packed with his accomplices pumping the hype, while the remaining hopefuls cling to delusions and watch their portfolios bleed out..
@theionicXBT How are there still people paying to be in your Discord? You should be ashamed of yourself. You have the nerve to post shit like this while many of your monthly Discord members have lost their hard-earned money believing your false promises.
I’m bullish.. wait, I’m bearish.. ok I’m bullish again. Cycle of human emotions. Tells you when to buy and sell if you’re paying attention. If you’re emotional you might be the exit liquidity.