• notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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      30 days ago

      Notice the number of downvotes I received - PERSONAL RECORD - YES BRING IT ON ! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Ironically, everybody is doing it, but nobody will admit it 🤭

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        everybody is doing it, but nobody will admit it

        This is the kind of thing people tell themselves about all kinds of behaviors to justify those behaviors but it’s usually not the case. We just tend to assume everyone does what we do, it’s a really common cognitive dissonance reduction tool.

        “People say you shouldn’t do X. I do X. I’m not a bad person. Everyone else is also doing X and just pretending they don’t.”