11/28 Living without absolute certainty (Nihilism lite poison pill for Humility)
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My attempt to play role of delusional fantasy addicted narcissist, and hopeless nihilist to ‘Scare people into more realistic optimism’, like Pierre XO & Richard Grannon refer to in this clip
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Life isn’t about final answers or solutions, it’s more about strengths & skills (& curiosity, exploration, reality)
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Some behind the scenes: part of my inspiration was from Grannon’s antidote to narcissistic traits by flipping symptoms into opposites. Video clips posted @ https://www.visceralgravitas.com/d/39-richard-grannon-clips-content-tracker/9
Some antidotes to narcissistic traits:
- Fantasy antidote is try to live in Reality
- Arrogance antidote is Humility
- Entitlement antidote is No One is coming to save you, You’re not owed anything
- Grandiosity antidote is being Boundaried & Self Awareness
- Neediness antidote is Responsibility, Values & Contribute to the world; Be your own source of validation
- Interpersonally exploitative antidote is to realize others exist & also important and valuable
Poison Pill approach was using exaggerated reflection and indirect comments to ‘interrupt the pattern’ and disrupt the standard super-ego, hero archetype, having the answers = I’m done type rigid mindset. My version of criticizing constant narrative and storytelling within a super-ego, excessively future focused controlling attitude.
no country for old men deconstructs several ideas that are narcissistic and dangerous
- all hope is effectively toxic; the narcissistic hope that everything will be okay, when in the real world it isn’t
- the idea, our notion of order, that we can passively wait and everything will just return to order
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