@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 2:26

Hubris, let’s talk…

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And I wonder what is the antidote? What is the solution for a cold case of hubris? How does a person who has been impacted by the negative characterization of hubris, how can they be humbled? How can a person learn? And what I concluded, and this is just my response to my own question is that perhaps irony is the means by which a person impacted by hubris, by this unbridled. Again, self confidence becomes less confident if there is a necessity for that

"Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring." Unbridled confidence, what’s the antidote? Irony? Can one experience humiliation?

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@SeekingPlumb

@lwatsonjr

Is it also a practice? Can one learn how to be? I don't know. But I will say that when there are times when I witness whether it's a celebrity or somebody that people are holding aloft in some sort of way that can seem to do no wrong in anyone's eyes. But also believe that about themselves. When I have an adverse reaction to this emotion. I mean. Then I start to ask myself why and like what is the problem I really have here?
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@SeekingPlumb

@lwatsonjr Brené Brown on shame & humiliation. And...

I don't know if it's possible to move from a place of confidence into this space naturally just by continuing with those patterns and not being honest with ourselves of where we struggle or I suppose there's many different ways this could come about, so there's probably different ways of how to address it. I'm rambling now, and I have no idea where I'm going or where I started or why I did. So I'm just going to end it here
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:44

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The usual way people will try to defeat a troll is to make fun of them, talk about their looks, if they have any looks available or their screen name or whatever political stance they happen to have, et cetera, until the person just runs away out of fear and cowardice. But that's the whole objective of the troll is to get the attention and you have to understand the attention that they are trying to get and how far are they willing to go to counteracted
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@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:59

@SeekingPlumb: Irony, confidence in an empty room…

The idea of irony in juxtaposition to hubris and the thought that I had when I said that was if confidence is the observation of a projection of the individual then irony comes into play as a juxtaposition of confidence that is unobservable. Unobservable. I'm sure I'm getting tongue tired of here. But the idea is that does confidence matter in an empty room, right?
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@SeekingPlumb

@lwatsonjr

I think that's what I gathered there. And the irony is that they're continuing to project to themselves without an audience of anybody else but themselves. And so if that's the case, when I go back to your original swell and you said something about irony being potentially the antidote or the cure to hubris, I can recognize irony in the way that you're describing these two scenarios. Right. And this is us observing from the outside these people
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@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 5:00

@SeekingPlumb: You’ve got it…

Or at least in my understanding, if I have confidence that I can, let's say, run faster than a cheetah, then the only way that I can sort of realize that people can sort of understand that as confidence is I say that I can run faster than the cheetah or I stand in front of a cheetah in the wild and start to trot. Now. Whether or not that confidence is false. My demonstration by pushing up against some things. Some circumstance. Some person
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@SeekingPlumb

@lwatsonjr

Speaking and thinking out loud is your thought, though, then, that if they're made aware of the fact that they're performing for themselves, comparing themselves to these imaginary voices or ideas, that somehow that awareness, the irony of it, would dissolve the behavior? Sorry. Give me a while to get there. Assuming I've finally gotten there
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@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 5:00

@SeekingPlumb: nailed it,…

And the image that comes to my mind when I talk about this and you're not the only person I'm talking to about this kind of thing is let's take a child and let's take a child with some obstacle in front of them
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00

@lwatsonjr

Again, I realize and put a disclaimer, there will be exceptions to everything I say here on out because human beings are remarkably similar, yet diverse. It's weird. So yeah, let me just get to the point which is back in the day people used to group together based on some very visual labels, right? Say the women or the Indians, because I'm an Indian woman, that's the example I used. That is how people would group together
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