This mindset has helped me to fight anxiety and raise my confidence and well it still is rising. My friends started to notice that I am more open, talkative and active in joining in conversation and jokes, even how I act in public in a good way. Definition of Sonder from the dictionary of obscure sorrows Reddit Source on Sonder that I stumbled upon << worth reading the OP's and first commenter's comment What do you guys think?
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.
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.