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Until You Finally Admit This You’ll Never Achieve the Success You Desire
Something funny happens from time to time when I post an article online. I’ll get a negative comment.
The person could be offering a sincere criticism, a slightly emotional one, or they can be a straight-up troll. Sometimes the people on the other end do have a legitimate beef with my writing, which is fine — I encourage skepticism.
Other times, though, I can tell the person is projecting, has some sort of insecurity, and is also lying to themselves in some shape or form.
This isn’t just common among online trolls, we all do it.
We outwardly pretend to be someone we’re not in some shape or form. We turn envy and insecurity into “critique.”
We virtue-signal about causes and ideas we don’t really care about but want to be seen caring about. In the case of self-improvement, many people scoff at it.
They’re to cool to improve themselves. They present a nonchalant air when really they’re desperate for a better life but don’t think they can pull it off.
Some people legitimately practice “self-love” and others use it as a rationalization for shortcomings they have control over.
