cringe tolerance
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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Embarrassment is completely counterintuitive. You’re so afraid of being perceived that you try to curate yourself so highly that you’re fundamentally manipulating the perception people have of you. You pretend to be someone you’re not, and 9 times out of 10, that person is a less awesome version of you.
Emilina Lomas • The Case for Being Cringe
Unsurprisingly, this fear lost me so much, and equally as unsurprising: nothing was gained.
Emilina Lomas • The Case for Being Cringe
Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
youtube.comWhen you’re willing to look cringe, a whole world of opportunity opens up. You realize you can’t please everyone so you stop trying. You just focus on winning your game. If you’re trying to make in on the internet, you’re playing a different game than 99% of people—so stop trying to play their game. When you focus on your game 100%, you’re free to... See more
Cringe is The New Cool
EVERYTHING I’VE EVER GOT IN LIFE WAS BECAUSE I CLIMBED CRINGE MOUNTAIN.
YOU SWEAT, YOU SHAKE, YOU LOOK STUPID. AND THEN ONE DAY, IT BREAKS OPEN.
AND SUDDENLY YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WITH A VIEW. https://t.co/qzL3rw6auw
Because you’re scared of letting the world see you for who you truly are. Perfectionism is the shield you hide behind, but it’s vulnerability that permeates the hearts of people in your life. Its softness, not rigor, that lets you experience the gift that is being alive.
Let’s say you are perceived in all the ways you want. What is there to gain?
Lif... See more
Let’s say you are perceived in all the ways you want. What is there to gain?
Lif... See more
Emilina Lomas • The Case for Being Cringe
In a world online, we’re always posturing. We’re more aware than ever of how we’re perceived. We cut, contort, and curate our online persona. We want people to think we’re funny, clever, fit, good-looking, rich. Meanwhile, we’re more depressed, anxious, and lonely than ever before.
I think you should fuck it all off. Embarrass yourself. Let people... See more
I think you should fuck it all off. Embarrass yourself. Let people... See more
Emilina Lomas • The Case for Being Cringe
surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more