The Stagnation of Shame

Seongee: There's a similar sentiment and stigma around the feeling of shame as regret in the culture of over-indexing and positivity. Guilt is I did a bad thing, Shame is I'm a bad person. And those are fundamentally different. When we make universal attributions about a person that can be debilitating. Seongee: But if you say I did abad thing, you said, well, okay, I did aBad Thing. Let me treat myself with some compassion. Then that can be an instrument for forward progress but shame is debilitating.