Invest in yourself less

LinkedIn loves this baloney right now.

Reject it and do this instead:

Invest in yourself less. Downplay your needs. Throw out your “self-care” and never use the stupid phrase ever again. Self-interest of every variety has done nothing to make this world suck less, and everything to make it more conceited, empty, and disordered. One reason we so easily fall for this nonsense is because we’ve made our “self” out to be some other poor soul in need of our charity. It’s guilt-free egoism on the inside that looks like humble compassion on the outside.

You’re the only one in there, and you don’t need more attention. You’re already better equipped for life more than you deserve. Your job is to steward it well. Grow a return on it and use it in the interest of someone with a different social security number.

Healing, confidence, etc. are false promises of self-pursuit anyway. It’s like mending a wound by picking the scab, or putting out a fire by blowing on its embers. To obsess over it is to feed it. Ask Barbra Streisand.

As for not knowing what to pursue in life: there’s no way you’ll find whatever that thing is when your affections are stuck up your gastrointestinal system. And I can guarantee — the rest of us aren’t interested in what you do end up discovering in there.You’re not as special as you think.

You’re already loved more than you deserve. You’re fitted with everything you need. Do not squander it by buying into life advice that smells like the lifestyle of a narcissist.