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You definitely believe this huge lie about yourself, according to science
Sounds fake but okay
by Jenn Ficarra
Surprise! It seems that we're all egotistical, ignorant megalomaniacs who have no self-awareness or self-knowledge to know that we're awful human beings.
Well, according to science that is.
Scientists claim that we're deceiving ourselves into thinking we're amazing people with no flaws and no ability to recognize our own shortcomings. We are living in an isolated bubble of self-importance with no self-awareness or self-knowledge.
Which is why, it seems, you feel like you're the fucking greatest person alive after you get more than 300 likes on an Instagram post. Because people are validating you and your existence and therefore it makes you believe you're wayyyy more popular and cool and beloved than you are.
It makes you think you're ~infallible~ but… like… maybe you are?
They say it's very important to acknowledge your flaws and the face that your shit does, in fact, stink. Which is hard to do since girls don't poop. But, theoretically, not accepting criticisms and working to change for the better can hold you back in life.
The more incompetent we are, apparently, the less we realize that we're incompetent. So, the more you act like a basic, narcissistic monster the less you realize you're a basic, narcissistic monster.
These "scientists" also claim the more we ignore feedback and refuse to accept our mistakes the further we stray from "reality."
Fair.
But also, science hasn't proven that we're not living in a simulation so is reality even really real?
The less you acknowledge your flaws and take responsibility for your mistakes, the less likely you are to also grow as a person. Okay, but my doctor told me 10 years ago I was done growing and my small tits are proof.
Maybe we don't need to grow. Maybe we're all fine the way we are.
And maybe we need our delusions since, you know, the U.S. is being governed by the fungus they scoop out from underneath your big toe at the nail salon. The last thing we need to do is become "self-aware" and "wake-up" to the world around us because the world is a giant garbage dumpster fire.
So scientists can say whatever they want to say but I, for one, think we're all perfectly fine living within our little, comfortable, sponsored by La Croix bubbles. Mmk?