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0 pointswruza3y ago0 comments

If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how.

Some people learn how and just do it.

Other people learn how and just do it.

You can’t see a difference until you get in these “other” shoes and realize how much unreasonable, irrational, disorienting discomfort they give. But minds aren’t shoes so you can’t just try on that.

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guntherhermann3y ago

Assuming they are otherwise physically and mentally capable, they can do it if they want to do it.

The hardest thing about life is not knowing.

Once you know that you don't know something, then you can try to know it.

I am talking as someone who spent a significant amount of my life thinking that I had to live and was consigned to living in one particular way, because I didn't know any other choice was open to me.

wruzaOP3y ago

Right, but the assumption in this argument is too narrowing. When people get anxious of e.g. complaining, it’s their mental inability, not just lack of a proper method. People get anxious and procrastinative (which may be a result of unnoticed anxiety) a lot. It’s not something affecting only around 1%.

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