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23. Is It Wrong to Crave Praise?

No Stupid Questions

The Psychological Wisdom of Positive Feedback

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When I am praised as a person, it may set me up for fragility later, but it does feel so damn good. In terms of like, when I say unhelpfully, you're a disorganized person on the negative side, why do I do that? Because I don't like the way that feels when people tell me things like that. If you look back at the first time you started doing and saying those kinds of things, were you patterning your behavior on someone else? Now you're psycho analyzing me, which I like actually.

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