Inspired by a Reddit post I saw: What should people stop romanticizing?
But I wanted to pose this question here that one of the first things that stands out to me is how at least in American culture we have romanticized, like the 60 hours work week to the point where that is like the most attainable or desirable thing that a lot of people strive for when it comes to their professional life. If you are not working at an extreme capacity, you're lazy. That's what I've been told and heard from a lot of people
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 4:33
And so I think what drives is romanticizing for hard work and success is trying to keep up with the Jones, the fear of not being enough. I don't know. It's a really interesting question. I have to think about some more, but there's some significant issues for all of us to look at. Thanks for raising this and nice to hear your voice again. Bye
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 0:59
At worst, the fake positivity has no effect. So I'd like to see less romanticizing, more about being happy and positive and upbeat. It's just people being real
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:21
It can work for some people, but it's kind of like masking to make other people feel comfortable. In my personal opinion, I think these are really great points. I'd like to add romanticizing the perceived healthy, idealistic body, which tends to be as thick, thin as we can make it. And with that, like, eating as little as possible. I have been in recovery for a long time
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 1:46
There's so much to unpack when you start thinking about what we idealize, what we romanticize. One of the ones that's close to near and dear to me, is romanticizing startups business entrepreneurs. We romanticize entrepreneurs and their success and the win at all cost. And it also seems like there's a certain romanticizing in certain groups around failing in business that if you keep failing eventually, you'll succeed. Now, there is an element of truth to that that we learn through failure
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 2:14
What should people stop romanticizing? It's a hard question because there's an imperative embedded in there. You know, people can essentially, I guess technically, do what they will. But what they should and should not do is a hard one because the doings of people do have impact. So now I'm thinking about what is the greatest impact of something that has been romanticized. I would say people should stop romanticizing the individual. The idea of the individual for many reasons
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:03
Hey, Taylor, I love this question. Pain. I think that we romanticize pain. And what popped into my mind instantly was that thing people say in the gym. Pain is weakness leaving the body and you're like, what the f***? No pain is just pain. And I think that to your point in our culture and whoever's working the hardest, we glorify. I think romanticize to your point in your actual swell. We romanticize toxicity, right?
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 1:51
And if you say I'm not doing very well, I have had very interesting responses where people because they weren't expecting an actual reply about actually how I'm doing. They then just like, oh, okay. And we'll move on or I've had people say, but you look so happy. So again, it's like but I'm telling you that I'm not okay
Charlie Olivieri
@Charlieri · 4:34
So I think this can be really romanticized and considered a part of a strong relationship like, oh, we've never eaten a meal apart for our entire life. Isn't that sweet for 50 years, but that makes this sense of pressure that makes this relationship rely upon this thing being constant and will create a sense of betrayal if that thing is the waste when what matters most is the connection between the two people and not what they can provide for each other