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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by ruytlm on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:38PM (#20671513)
One I have found helpful in a professional context is to think "If I were fired today, what would my replacement do about this?"
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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by taneq on Sunday August 11, 2019 @10:16PM (#20671915)
Sometimes, though, the answer is "run screaming out the front door and never be seen again. :P
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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by dwd on Sunday August 11, 2019 @10:33PM (#20671969)
You have to ask yourself those questions sometimes.

Staying in a toxic workplace because you have a mortgage, debts or a family to support could seem to an outsider like you've slipped into a Stockholm Syndrome-like mindset where you just don't want to think about it.

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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by kaybe on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:45AM (#20674490)
I wonder how many of us would do exactly that if we felt it was an option.
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