Stapps

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[โ€“] Stapps@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

The issue here is that you're doing everything you can to avoid negative emotions, like picking up your phone to distract yourself at the first sign of anxiety.

Often some of the biggest things which hold us back in life come from avoiding discomfort. The most 'motivated' people you know aren't doing all these things because it's easy, they do them despite the difficulty and discomfort.

The best thing you can do for yourself is learn how to sit with discomfort and act on what you want to do despite it. It's not easy, but it'll change a lot for you.

[โ€“] Stapps@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alexei Yurchak who was a professor of anthropology coined a term for this: Hypernormalisation.

From Wikipedia: "He introduced the word in his book 'Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation', which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s. He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend."