• Meron35@lemmy.world
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    “My life is a mess right now and I compulsively take care of other people when I don’t know how to take care of myself.” -Princess Carolyn

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    I know this is a shit post, but I have wrestled with hypocrisy or more specifically saying one thing but doing something else for a long time. Think of a murderer saying that murder is wrong.

    I think I am comfortable now saying that hypocrisy doesn’t discredit a true statement, even if the person who is saying it may be considered disingenuous.

  • eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    is there a name for the reverse of this? like making a change for yourself that works great for your needs, but then assuming that others just need to do the same thing?

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      Sharing what worked for you is a pretty normal way to give advise. It can get annoying when its done too much, but that’s also not really rare. Though that tends to happen more when it’s a fresh experience and probably related to sincerely wanting to share a good experience.

      But I don’t any specific tarm for this. Projection maybe a bit

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      me giving relationship advice currently

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    Guys this was me playing bowling the other day with my buddy every time I instructed him how to throw the ball he got a strike but otherwise… GUTTER BALL! But then I gutter balled when I went… just thought I’d mention that

    Yeah, I suck at bowling

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hey that’s awesome you coached him into getting strikes

      (Strikes are a good thing in bowling but a bad thing in baseball apparently)

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      The craziest part of that is the idea supposedly working. Like: instead of both calling out his idea as outlandish, one of them was like “Yeah - cool. We’ll go with that plan. I can accept taking home half of a human child.”

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    It’s called self-actualization when you can give yourself the same advice. MDon’t let the term allow you to believe it’s more than a resting place of awareness.

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      Understanding my propensity to give good advice that I struggle to follow when applying it to myself has helped to push me towards actually following my own advice.

      After all, I don’t want to be a hypocrite. It would feel wrong to give advice if I weren’t at least trying to follow it