Not sure what you mean by “system,” so I’m just going to answer a thing I wish someone explained to me much earlier.
Not everyone feels hunger cues, so “just eat when you’re hungry” can be bad advice.
I learned about anorexia nervosa as an eating disorder in middle and high school. People worried about me because I was thin and didn’t eat a lot, but I didn’t try to stay skinny and I ate when I was hungry, so I knew I didn’t have that. Ironically, learning about EDs made me sure I didn’t have a problem.
In college I took a class that defined anorexia as “a lack of appetite,” identifying it could be a drug side effect, from stress, or just how someone’s body is. It differentiated “anorexia” from “anorexia nervosa.” That opened my eyes that I did have disordered eating, but it was from physiology, not psychology.
I trained myself how to eat enough, but I still have to be careful not to fall back into old habits since I don’t have normal hunger cues. It’s constant work that might have been easier if I started building these habits from a younger age.
Most of the time people want connection / to be heard, more than solutions to their problems.
well they shouldnt have such easily solvable problems then
lol how dare they
Someone explained this to me as:
It’s not that people don’t want solutions, talking about their problems IS the solution. In fact “talking about it” is so effective that some people successfully earn their living with it.
The vast majority of advice you will ever hear about anything is medicinal - it’s contextual to a specific set of circumstances, and is meant to deal with a certain problem or a particular type of situation. Most advice is not applicable universally, even if it is sometimes good advice.
Following from this, if you get someone sharing a piece of advice, consider if that advice suits your circumstances before following it. People have different lives, and not everything everyone tells you will be helpful advice for every situation. Like medicine.
Marxists would agree that few things apply universally, and they always consider the context, or “material conditions.” When liberals say Marxists are dogmatic, they’re showing their ignorance.
I agree but isn’t this off-topic to the comment you’re replying to?
Liberals saying Marxists are dogmatic is meaningless. Liberals don’t even have a coherent ideology, their understanding of what constitutes a dogma is practically the same as a rock’s.
The flipside of this is what a friend once dubbed “terminal uniqueness.” Just because you aren’t in the exact same situation as others does not mean their advice won’t work for you, your life isn’t that unique
So true.
That you don’t actually have to do everything perfectly, doing more things but 80% correctly is usually better
This is a good idea except when I look at my stack of unpublished novels.
I am most definitely suffering from one of these that I still haven’t figured out yet. probably financial shit which is the most boring thing in the whole universe to me.
Yes. Me too.
