Untethered Mind

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People-pleasing will hurt you with tiny cuts. Do this instead.

People-pleasing will hurt you with tiny cuts. Do this instead.

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Alex Mathers
Sep 05, 2022
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It took me most of my 36 years to realise I was operating on outdated software.

I had downloaded a program into my mind as a boy.

As we all do.

It is the software that guides us in our early years. Most of us never see a system update before we hit the grave.

What’s its name?

‘People-Pleasing V 1.0.’

As children, we are programmed to please the giant, scary, …

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