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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   2446 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 18, 2024

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You are extroverted, some people you know are more extroverted than you.

Those people you talk to that suck at maintaining conversations ... probably introverts.

I think your argument proves too much. It sounds like it could be used to disprove any internal assessments.

It sounds like it could be used to disprove any internal assessments.

It certainly could! But Sharp Knives and all that.

I think it's trivially obvious that many people believe false things about themselves, some of which are helpful and some harmful. If I think a belief I have about myself may be preventing me from doing things that would be good for my life, I think it's worth spending some effort to test if that belief is really true or not. If it does turn out to be true, then I've suffered some minor discomfort or something for the sake of proving to myself that it actually is true. If it turns out not to be true, then it's like I've unlocked a new power or something.

The same with ideologies to follow and things to identify as. One of the things I like about the Rationalist sphere of thinking is it provides the tools and thought patterns to recognize when what I'm thinking about following is an ideology rather than a fact. Ideologies were mostly created to make whoever created them famous or to connect a group of people together, not for my objective benefit. I am perfectly free to decide that an ideology is not to my benefit and reject it.

Being introverted is one of the things I'd gladly change about myself. That and disliking Broccoli (would make low carb diet way easier).

I don't think most introverts are very happy with it. It seems like a maladaptive trait for the modern world.

I suspect it is closer to something like left-handedness than it is to something like an accent that you can discard with a bit of practice.

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