Mango ,

See? That's why rich people are better!

MacNCheezus ,
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Just stop being poor, problem solved.

tostiman ,
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MacNCheezus ,
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Makes sense to me!

Jokes aside, this actually IS in fact the only effective method I've found to create lasting change in life – basically, you have to find a way to reframe your situation into something that's temporary, rather than making it a core part of your identity. Basically, if you consider yourself poor (or homeless) BY DEFINITION, all you'll ever see is evidence to support that fact. But by doing so, you are in fact robbing yourself of any chance of improvement because if the situation is unfixable, there is no point in even making an effort to try. But if you don't even try, it simply becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then you are indeed stuck with no way out.

So in a way, you do in fact have to gaslight yourself in to believing the opposite about yourself, and then attempt to validate that idea by looking for evidence to support it. This can of course be rather difficult at first, but the more you practice it, the better you'll get. And the better you get at it, the more you'll believe it, which ends up making that idea another self-fulfilling prophecy that ends up replacing the former.

MalReynolds ,
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In a lot less words: fake it till you make it.

Zagorath ,
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I didn't read the "in med school" part and was expecting the reveal to be that she actually took a material science course.

Wutchilli ,

I mean bones are also just fancy structures so ...

captainlezbian ,

That’s biomechanics and the main thing you learn in it aside from statics and dynamics is that living osseous tissue is a strange material and it bends so much more than you think it should

Catoblepas ,

Ah well, not the first time I’m fighting biology as a trans dude!

Xantar ,

Yeah I think about stress everyday too. Not that I have a choice though.

toofpic ,

I majored in stress working in retail

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