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How do i become more cynical
| But cynicism means calling everything horrible no matter what it is. You're almost there. Try to be more jaded.
| sometimes people call themselves cynics as an excuse to complain a lot
maybe you just save your breath for when it's actually worth it?
| >>a7e2af
yeah, just call something out if something seems like bullshit. because no one likes bullshit, and no one really has objections to people who are willing to address shit.
| huh you're right.
how do i become less cynical
| Watching the news and interactions with the general public will make you more cynical.
Spending time reading the wisdom of the Buddha and Aristotle, being in nature, finding beauty and pleasure in the mundane, living in the moment will all go to make you less cynical.
| Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were shade masters.
It's not so much about being *like* them as it is learning about being introspective and wanting to live a good life via being excellent. If you want to be a less cynical person, you do that by actively learning and trying to be less cynical. Your intention is the key, there is no "magic switch" that you flip to be less cynical. You have to make the effort to be what you want to be.
| >>302265
Sometimes both. Socrates always listens, that's worth imitating. He's not debating, he's searching. Also in the Symposium he admits to getting a boner from looking down a young boy's toga, so he'd fit right in here.
| Realize it only benefits you to do so. Try reading at least the first 8 pages of the ego and his own
| >>302291
But cynicism doesn't benefit you. You end up dismissing all the information you disagree with, and that's pretty unwise. "My doctor says I have a brain tumor but he's full of shit. All I have is tingly jellybrain! He just wants me to pay for more visits and shit meds I don't need and another hole in my head."
| Cynicism is generally not something to strive for.
| That doctor example drives too close to home as quite recently a doctor asked me about my insurance first thing first as I went into his office. Touche.
| there's too many cynical people. let's be happy together op~ <3
| A cynic is just an angry pessimist. Not only is the glass half empty, someone probably tampered with it while you weren't looking too.
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| I might be too soft because a lot of things sound horrible to me