How about getting rid of the spontaneous embarrassment highlight reel in the first place? That would be great, thanks.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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Reflecting on your mistakes lets you learn from them and not repeat them. Reducing the number of mistakes you make is good for survival. Sorry, this is a feature not a bug.
You should've added "Closing the issue." too at the end lol.
Wont fix
Yeah that's not the problem we're talking about, it's about still being presented with these 45 years later, with memories from a time when you were a stupid little kid.
Stupid brain.
Very true but moderation is key
People that regret social mistakes go on to commit less social mistakes and thus breed more often than those that never worry about their social faux pas
Recalling my past is like watching a cringe comedy that turns briefly into a Yorgos Lanthimos film about various mental illnesses, then a quirky Wes Anderson film, and back into a cringe comedy.
I do be fuckin tho
If I had to come up with a reason for it out of my ass, I'd say it's because being rejected from a tribe would be a death sentence for most, so those that remembered their mistakes were less likely to repeat them and be expelled.
WAIT WTF ITS NOT JUST ME HOLY SHIT I
It’s not unnecessary. It’s a signal that you need to figure out that moment more deeply. It’s a signal telling you that at least one, possibly more, of the particular behavioral stupidities that led to the embarrassing situation hasn’t yet been figured out and changed.
The way to make the cringe go away is to go back and revisit the situation in detail, and analyze exactly what decisions you made incorrectly that led to it.
For example, I had a situation from fifteen years ago, with my ex girlfriend, involving sex with another guy while we were on a break. Every time I would think of that it would hurt so bad.
I took the above advice and revisited in tons of detail, and analyzed my own mistakes in the scenario. During this analysis I realized that my problem wasn’t the sex; it was the lying about the sex. I should have stopped pursuing her not because she had sex with someone else (which she had the right to do while we were broken up), but I should have stopped pursuing her right then and there because she lied about the sex.
Once I got that new understanding, that moment where I realized she’d just tucked that guy doesn’t hurt in my memory like it did before. Now it’s just a blank, flat, monotone part of my history, similar to “I was born in XXXX year and XXXX city”. It’s just basic data, not a highly charged moment of my past.
You don’t get cringe with all your embarrassing memories. There’s some stuff you did that was super embarrassing that’s just part of your early story, and doesn’t move your energy when you remember it. But certain memories — the ones with a significant emotional jolt upon recall — are like knots that need to be unraveled, and will continue to tug at the fabric of your everyday emotion until you do.
I already know what I did wrong, I said "thanks, you too" when the person at the concessions said "enjoy the movie". Doesn't mean I'm not gonna cringe...
No it’s part of a deeper pattern. Go in with don’t know mind. Recreate the whole scene in writing in as much detail as you remember. Trust me there’s something underneath it.
you can address these things using CBT and a nice therapist, those flinches will fade
For anyone confused, they mean Cognitive Behavioral Therapy not Cock and Ball Torture or Computer Based Training.
correct :)
CBT is great stuff it's true
So fucking glad it's not just me
shame served an evolutionary function that has become less useful when you can so easily find a new tribe and security in modern life
I am a human and I don’t do that. That is entirely a learned behavior.