Is it actually possible to not care about what people think?

[ELchico1836]

I know it sounds badass to say you don't care about what people think but I feel everyone does so to some extent.

 

[Incelius Savage]

Idk my brains so fucked.

 

[Edmund_Kemper]

anyone who says they don't care what others think is either lying or lacks self-awareness. We all care to at least some degree.

besides, if not caring what others think's so easy, LGBT people wouldn't fear coming out of the closet.

 

[belowhumanity]

not in our situation because we are low status men. Our equivalent ancestors could’ve died because of what ppl think abt them due to their low power. We have this instinct but not so much for high status men. It is also similar nowadays still, people try to make incels die all the time for fun

 

[nice_try]

Of course it's possible.
It comes with age and inceldom.

 

[Rhaast]

Edgecope

 

[Saint Cho]

This isn't even a good thing to begin with. You have to be mindful of how others think about you. Otherwise you'll be mistreated far worse than usual, making your life even harder than it already is.

 

[Deleted member 36776]

There's the "thinking I" portion of your mind/self that you think gives you control and is in "charge" and wills your actions...that deliberating voice in your head. Well it turns out that feature of your mind can't really probe into the rest of the brain and most of our self/emotional life/being is rooted in those deeper regions. Jonathan Haidt in THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS compared the self to an elephant which has a rider. The rider is your deliberating/cogitating self/"I." It can guide and steer the elephant but is also completely helpless if the elephant decides to go in its own direction. It has no choice but go along, trapped. Often when this is happening we're still under the illusion of being in control. To cut it short, your social anxieties come from the elephant. The rider is helpless against it.

 

[CrackingYs]

The only people who really don't care what others think would be true, actual "Hannibal Lector" style psychopaths.

 

[Deleted member 39755]

probably not since it's a basic necessity of a human being to be accepted by others and into the group from more primitive times

 

[Fake_Alpha]

I genuinely don’t give a fuck what normies think, but it doesn’t make life any better, I just don’t waste time self loathing after I do something stupid, people still treat me as subhuman but at least I can have fun fucking around

 

[Loner94]

Interesting question