“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard P. Feynman
“Care about what other people might think of you and you will always be their prisoners.” — LAO TZU
“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” — Marcus Aurelius
“If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.” — Christopher Walken
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People tend to overestimate the degree to which other people are noticing, observing, and judging their appearance or behaviors (trivial egoic concerns)
Harsh truth in reality:
- Nobody is thinking about you as much as you are. Everyone is concerned mostly about themselves, how how they’re coming across. They are just/far too busy thinking about themselves.
- Most people don’t actually care about you; They are really just going through life worried about themselves.
Stop caring about what others might think of you. Like birds sing, not worrying about who hears.
The “No One Cares” Mindset
- No one cares if I write blog posts that are a bit rambly because I haven’t had much experience of writing.
- No one cares if my belt doesn’t match my shoes when I attend this party.
- No one cares about the driver of Lamborghini, but they want to be the driver of Lamborghini.
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