The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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You can, but watch out if your IQ is above like 110; keep your head down and castrate your vocabulary or you may soon find everyone else squinting at you in suspicion.
I tried lower-middle class work among some lovely Red Tribe yokels, but made a few missteps early on and rapidly garnered a reputation for being far, far smarter than they were. It did work fine for the first four years, and had a lot of fun with them, but then the Peter Principle saw a petty, insecure moron promoted to the position once occupied by my decent boss, and work became a constant game of bootlicking, kowtowing, and looking over my shoulder. One of the last emails I sent him stated, literally, "I'm sorry you find me hard to understand. I want very much for you to understand me."
TL;DR in a workplace where the average IQ is significantly below yours, beware, for big words = bad words
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