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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It's also pretty cringe "mom says I'm a genius" shit

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Every parent should be gassing their kid up though. Most of our "successful" people are just normal kids that never hit a wall or had help getting around walls. Realistic expectations are what keeps people from jumping jobs for a raise; applying for positions they don't fully qualify for; moving for better job market access; retraining for management roles; and so much more.

Note, I'm not talking about rags to riches, success can be a first generation college graduate getting a professional job; a homeless kid getting a steady job and pulling their family off the streets; a burnt out delivery guy getting a union warehouse job. The point is people with low expectations don't look for new opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's so weird that we have a culture that treats teaching pride to children as a bad thing.

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13

[–] tyler 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What a weird thing to call pride and narcissism the same. Being prideful is nothing to do with being narcissistic. One is an external thing, the other an internal. The prideful person cares about things other than themselves and shows that. The narcissistic person cares about no one but themselves, and their actions reflect that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This comment deserves increased visibility

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That's not true at all. I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and I care about others very deeply. And My actions reflect that. For example, recently I shut down a cult discord server run by a pedophile who's dating kids from the cult. This is because I think adults dating kids is bad.

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