Success Me: “Cool”
Mistake Me: “Cool”
My secret? I am preemptively freaked out about failure at all times. When I succeed, I am relieved. When I fail, it’s as I expected.
This is honestly a big part of why I retired. The constant “I’m gonna fuck something up” anxiety was really overwhelming at times.
Sheesh, i wonder if this guy’s just a clone of me somewhere else in the world. Just about every comic I’ve read by them has been ridiculously on point, lol
Honestly, same. Most of the comics I post are from people I identify with pretty heavily. Why you won’t see me post stuff from PennyArcade or XKCD. They’re great comics but they don’t hit me personally. That and I just got an upgrade on storage space for all my memes and stuff recently and I’m almost out of space already.
It’s important you weigh your mistakes and achievements properly, otherwise you’ll be too arrogant or too down on yourself. That’s one of the main things that’s helped me feel like an actual competent person and not a failure.
It’s a fine line to walk
It’s an evolutionary advantage that we tend to focus on seeking out what is wrong instead of what is right, in terms of survival in nature.
Unfortunately, it isn’t usually an advantageous cognitive focus in modern civilization. It becomes more of an impediment to humanity in this setting, just like our over competitive nature.
It’s only natural
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