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face. Don’t you want people to like you?’ We have spent our entire lives wanting people to like us when we don’t like ourselves. Fear of not being liked has consumed us.
Minmia Smith • Under The Quandong Tree
What if you’re wired not to be “liked” but to be loved, and not by many but by One? Could that explain why all the attention is never enough? Or why a kind of postpartum depression sets in after every “win,” every time you make it to the top of what you thought was the mountain of achievement? Why does winning leave you feeling so restless?
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
the impulse to be liked and admired follows us through our lives. Parent-figures may project this need onto their children in a number of ways.
Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Once other people start telling you what they like via Like buttons, you inevitably start hewing to their idea of what’s good. And since “people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests,” the stuff you publish will start looking a lot like th... See more
James Somers • The Like Button Ruined the Internet
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Here, you’re posting for yourself as much as your friends.
Retro - Feel Good Social
sari added
resonates. on sublime, you post for yourself as much as others. it's about combining personal utility with social discovery.
give up the need to be liked by everybody. Will Smith said, “Trying to get everybody to like you is the most common chosen road to mediocrity.”
Peter Voogd • 6 Months to 6 Figures
He said the ‘craving’ to be appreciated.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
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We make two common mistakes when we try to be liked: we either try to impress or we try to be like the other person. Yet we know, from every day of our own experience of liking and disliking other people, that status and similarity are not especially attractive traits.