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   Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 17:17:55 JST Bethany Black

   Despite many decades of attempts I have discovered it’s not possible to hate myself into being better at anything

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     Quinn Rhodes (he/him) (onqueerstreet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:44:43 JST Quinn Rhodes (he/him)

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     @BethanyBlack This is so true but so incredibly hard (IMO) to properly internalise? I have a post-it note with the Allison Raskin quote "I don't become a better person by shitting on myself" stuck to the wall above my desk right in my eye-line, because it's a reminder I need literally daily.

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     TeflonTrout (teflontrout@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 22:21:24 JST TeflonTrout

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     @BethanyBlack Well

     I hated myself into becoming a better person, and now I'm happy with who I am. That's rich from a cis white guy I know, but it's the only perspective I have to offer.

     Hate is an emktion like anger, you can't repress emotions but you can watch what they do to you and react usefully to them.

     I wish you didn't hate yourself because I quite like you, but hook that shit up to your cart and make it do work. <3