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Sonder Mentality

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by LuckyScrubs, May 31, 2013.

  1. LuckyScrubs

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    I think it is profound, and I have intuited this for a long time. Thanks for articulating this intuition.

    It reminds me of a Jewish saying: He who saves a life saves the world entire.
     
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    It's an interesting way to look at life. Perhaps I should try it and see where it leads.
     
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    I had always thought of things this way. I didn't realise there was a name for it.
     
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    It's helped me, too. The three most liberating words I've ever heard in my life are "People don't care". When I was being trained to be an insurance agent (which was only for like two weeks before I quit), the guy training me was a psychology student who was getting ready to graduate with his Bachelor's, and he's say that to me all the time to help me sell policies. Never actually sold any though. I thought something was wrong with me, and then I realized that deep down, I hated the job and was only doing it for the money. But now I tell a friend of mine who's very socially anxious like me that he's only going to see most people once, and that it's not a big deal what they think of him.