How To Not Care What Others Think
Do you know how to Not care what others think? If you have been told by many that you are over-sensitive and that you get hurt too easily, this may be a skill that you need. Learning how to not care what others think takes practice and shifting of your paradigm so let’s get started.
Caring for what others think comes from our ancient brain, to help us survive.
Not caring what others think is not about not caring for others but it is about caring about the right things.
By learning this life skill, you become a wiser and more effective person because you become free of unhealthy ways of living.
When you start learning how to not care what others think and focus on truly seeing your world as it is, you become a more empowered and more effective person, a person that you truly want to be.
This post is all about teaching you how to not care what others think so that you can truly become the best version of yourself.
How To Not Care What Others Think
The reasons Why we may care what others think.
- In our Cromagnon days, we had to avoid being eaten by sabertooth tigers and alike by belonging to a group
- We are taught to care what others think by words such as, “What would so and so say? What would so and so think?”
- We may lack a sense of self-value
- We have not been taught to become emotionally self-reliant
- We don’t have sufficient self-love and we are seeking it from others
Some part of us fears being rejected because in the ancient world, if we were shunned from a group, we likely got killed and eaten by predators.
We are no longer in danger but we still have some of those irrational fears that linger. We have to use our logical mind to rethink and know the truth of things.
Truly what others think of us, for the most part, cannot harm us unless we care what others think.
Oftentimes what others think is based on less than correct data, influenced by less-than-nonbiased thinking and less than good logic. They are often wrong.
The danger now of caring what others think is that we are led to see our world in the wrong light, away from our own truths.
Impact of a life caring too much about what others think
- We can become easily manipulated by others
- We may be too needy and push away others which then turns us into becoming more needy
- We become other-directed and lose out on fully developing ourselves
- We can become narcissistic and hurt those around us and hurt ourselves
- We can stunt our own self-development
A life of doing things that make others happy is a noble one. But it must be done in the right way.
The right way is to do those things without needing or expecting a reaction or result. You do them unconditionally.
When you are a person who operates your life based on how others see you, then you are going to do things that are not aligned with who you are but aligned with what you think others want you to be. You lead your life on the wrong path when you do that.
When you lead your life trying to keep up with the opinions of others, you waste your life away never really knowing who you are and never knowing the experience of your true beautiful you and that is the saddest part.
How to not care what others think
- Realize that what others think comes from whatever is going on inside that person and is not a true reflection of you or the value of you
- Become self full
- Excellent self-care (self-love in action)
- value your time
- Learn to say no to what is not you
- Learn to say yes to things that you want to do, even if they scare you
- Study philosophy, especially Stoicism, and contemplate deep healthy good thoughts and ideas
- Be a lifelong learner so that you can build your thinking skills that you can rely on and respect
Developing good thinking skills, an independent mind, and a mind that can see things above the influence of what is popular at the moment helps you to lead a truly meaningful life. You are not swayed by manipulative people from all walks of life. You are not pulled into things that waste your time.
Above all else, learning how to not care what others think but to learn how to know what you think keeps you from wasted efforts and misery. You can be allowed to be truly you. That’s a life worthy of you.
This post was all about How to not care what others think so that you can be the best powerful self you can be.
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