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First Impressions Can Be Delusional
Everyone tries to market themselves as someone they are not. That's why relying on first impressions is a shitty way of making judgments.
The best way is to look at their actions and wait until you gather enough real-life data.
Making assumptions without the right data will never give you an accurate analysis of a person.
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Admire, Don’t Follow
Admire people and learn from them. But don’t become someone’s blind follower.
The element of honesty is what separates blind following from admiration.
Honesty removes the fake image of perfection from your eyes. Instead, you see ordinary, accessible people with flaws and struggles, just like you. That’s why you admire them, for their reality.
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Perfection Only Exists Online
When you see perfect people online, you realize that you lack something they don’t, which causes self-doubt.
The thing is, you don’t have any real-life data about them. You have no idea what they are like in real life.
In real life, people aren’t perfect. People have so many flaws that even they aren’t aware of.
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Rejections Are Normal
Getting depressed or motivated by rejection only means that you are desperate for another person’s approval, which you definitely shouldn’t be.
Rejections have nothing to do with you. It is you who has to decide your self-worth. Nobody knows “you” more than you.
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1.53K reads
Stop Chasing Happiness
You never stop chasing those things that make you happy or give you immense joy. Once you get something pleasurable, you crave more.
Happiness doesn’t last for eternity.
Therefore, one should continually strive for self-satisfaction. The search for self-satisfaction gives us peace of mind and happiness as a product.
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Specialness Is Earned
Specialness is something you earn. If you need somebody else to tell you that you are special, then you have not done anything to earn it. People aren’t qualified enough to decide whether someone is special or not.
Specialness should be the feeling felt on upgrading in life after mastering a skill.
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1.52K reads
Learn How to Think
Everything you’ve learned so far comes from someone telling you how to feel and what to think. If you want to become intelligent, you have to admit that you don’t know anything or that what you know is probably wrong.
Avoid blindly following beliefs and learn to question. Wrong beliefs make you stupid; it’s the right ones that set you free.
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