You need to know that barely anybody give a fuck about your failures and when you mess up, unless your failures is saving a child from drowning etc, but even then people will forget it eventually. They'll only care about it for a little bit before forgetting it.
You'll feel your embarrassment naturally not as overpowering after you integrate this thought process into your brain.
Agreed. We are the stars of our own movies (lives), so naturally we worry about our own embarrassments long after others have likely forgotten about them, since they're more worried about their own. Other people's embarrassments typically pale in comparison to your own since your own have a bigger effect on you, save for the intense secondhand embarrassment of someone who has done something truly shameful/cringeworthy (as in overstepping boundaries, not just saying something kind of stupid).
Why embarrassment exists?
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You need to know that barely anybody give a fuck about your failures and when you mess up, unless your failures is saving a child from drowning etc, but even then people will forget it eventually. They'll only care about it for a little bit before forgetting it.
You'll feel your embarrassment naturally not as overpowering after you integrate this thought process into your brain.
Works for me.
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Agreed. We are the stars of our own movies (lives), so naturally we worry about our own embarrassments long after others have likely forgotten about them, since they're more worried about their own. Other people's embarrassments typically pale in comparison to your own since your own have a bigger effect on you, save for the intense secondhand embarrassment of someone who has done something truly shameful/cringeworthy (as in overstepping boundaries, not just saying something kind of stupid).