
252. Don’t Fetishize the Burps of Your Subconscious
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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Why You Shouldn't Gaslight Yourself or Change Your Thoughts
The process of choosing a new thought on purpose rather than just thinking whatever unconscious random BS your brain has spit out, that's not gaslighting. That is not tricking or lying to yourself. Your original thoughts are not more you than your new thoughts. It all comes down to like how do you want to understand yourself and your identity? Are you the combination of everything that has happened to you running on autopilot with no intentional direction? I think the thoughts I choose to leave on purpose are much more the real me, the conscious me,. Right? If I choose to keep a thought I came up with subconsciously, that's fine. If I evaluate it and I decide I want to
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