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Each of us creates the world we live in. We choose what to include in it and we also decide what to leave out.

Interested in the latter, we dug around Reddit and found a few discussions where people have been sharing difficult-to-accept truths that they know are correct but actively try not to think about.

So we put together the most popular entries, and I gotta say, it's not the easiest list to go through, but it's definitely intriguing and thought-provoking. After all, even if we refuse to acknowledge a fact, that doesn't make it go away.

Continue scrolling to check out what things are bothering people the most and the talks we had with social science writer and researcher Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D., MPP, and professor of psychology at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Noam Shpancer, Ph.D.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No-one wants to hear your shitty music in public, especially in class.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only there were some sort of device that could be used to stop this from happening.. Wait a minute, there is! HEADPHONES!!

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According to Shpancer, refusing to think about something we know is true is a form of avoidance. "It may provide short-term relief from discomfort, and can sometimes help us keep from becoming distracted, but in the long term, a habit of persistent avoidance—a refusal to face your known challenges—becomes a bigger problem than whatever issue you were avoiding in the first place," the author of The Good Psychologist told Bored Panda.

This, let's call it practice, sounds quite similar to denial, but, as Shpancer pointed out, the latter is a refusal to accept or acknowledge the truth altogether. "The benefit of denial is that it may, in the short term, buy you some time to summon and mobilize your coping resources," he explained.

"When we hear bad, surprising news, our first reaction is often 'No, it can't be,' even if we have every reason to trust the source of the bad news. This momentary denial may allow us to 'catch our breath' as it were, before delving into the hard work of coping. Relying on denial for the long term is, however, unhealthy. Such persistent refusal to acknowledge and face facts erodes interpersonal trust and communication and leads to bad decisions. If you're falling, there's no use telling yourself that you've learned how to fly."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Just because someone is related to you doesn't mean they are a good person.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother and sister are my abusers. I remember seeing a Tumblr post about how great it is to have a sibling as you’ll “always have a friend”. I almost choked laughing at the naivety.

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Sherman, the author of Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, agreed, highlighting how human life is uniquely anxious compared to other organisms. "Just compare the range of worries a human could have compared to any other critter. No contest. To cope, we need denial, escapism, entertainment, but to survive we need all hands on deck in reality too," he explained to Bored Panda.

"I'm on a campaign I call 'optimal: see illusion, safe escapism or strategic gullibility', encouraging people to take their denialist flights of fancy but always with a return ticket to reality safe in your heart pocket. It's not how far out you go, but whether you remember to come back. The big difference between a death metal concert and an authoritarian political rally is what happens in the parking lot after. After the metal concert, people return to reality. After the rally, people think they've experienced something more real than reality. That's dangerous."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Voting Trump out of office won't magically fix everything. He is a symptom of a bigger disease here in the USA.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, but it sure made me FEEL better to help vote him out of office!

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This comment goes beyond Trump to so many other US politicians: When it is more important to you to stay in power instead of governing, you are not the person for the job. When you are proud of blocking *any* legislation just to block it, you are not the person for the job. If you are not willing to learn the basics of working together, you are not the person for the job.

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ben woskje
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We recently voted out an ultra-religious-right-wing-whack job in aus.... and just having him gone has given people hope. Sure, many of the issues he (and his party) caused are kicking our arses right now.... but there at a sense of hope for many people that at least the current government is trying to make things better. I would imagine its the same in the U.S.

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Kellie Whyte
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL I sure as hell hope you're not talking about ScoMo, and holding hope for Albenese???

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Voting out or in a president is not end all. We need to vote out undesirables in congress. President can't do much without a congress.

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vote. Vote in the "small elections" - where the basis of democracy is. Look at the local officials who stood up to Trump's bullying and refused to change votes in his favor. My local alderman became mayor and then became a powerful congressman. Voting counts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Voting that traitor out of office was one of the best things to come out of Voting for anything in this country.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, but his presence was like turning off the lights in an infested tenement. All the roaches came out of the woodwork.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How he managed to get into office is the part that boggles the mind. I thought the US had a lot of smart people. Trump and COVID has definitely enlightened me on that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As you can see from the comments, one party has been using FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt) for years to groom a base. It's was pointed out to this party in the early 2000s "if you don't give something back to the people, they will fall for the first demagogue who comes along." Trump was that demagogue.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but he gave people the permission to say the quiet part out loud. So, all the shittiest, most racist, most hateful parts of America that had at the very least been kept at bay by reasonable minds, are now on full display and gloried in. Taking away his platform will *eventually* temper the rhetoric. As long as we don't bring in someone even worse in the future.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People think "Trump isn't the real problem" idea is a "hot take." And while, yes, Trump is absolutely a symptom of larger issues that began with conservative talk radio and Reagan in the 80s, continued with Newt Gingrich and republicans of the 90s, and then amplified through Bush II and social media, however Trump is uniquely dangerous. He literally put his VP's life in danger because he wouldn't participate in his coup. Among 1000s of other examples. Trump is a clear and present danger.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He would sacrifice anybody and everybody to get more power and ego feeding.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep I’m feeling that now ! I’m still glad he’s gone but nothing got better

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Voting Biden into office made it worse, he is another symptom of the same problem and becasue of him we will get Trump in office once more. We need leaders that unify not bring us apart. There are no more good choices, politics does not attract good quality people, it attracts corrupt, attention-hungry, not so smart people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we will have a Rep president next, I just pray it's not Trump.

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Len Mastin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes, the democrats are doing a bang up job, aren’t they!

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RedCorvette
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as he and his fail children are out of WH, it’s good.

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Ash
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He made it okay for racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hate filled people to come out of the hole they crawled out of.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure... there's a fire but you don't have to pour gasoline on it right? Diaper Donnie had to go.

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Sally Barry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got a mail-in ballot to vote and I drove several miles in a rainstorm with a fever of 101, to the building to cast my vote, in order to vote against Dump.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now your gas is around or over $5.00 a gallon. Biden is an absolute idiot. If you look at Trump with regards to what he accomplished, you would not be so negative. You don't have to love the President's personality for him to be a good President. Trump is for America. Biden puts America last. How the gas prices haven't proven that to you, I don't know. Maybe the outrageous inflation at the grocery store will open your eyes? Or when your ability to buy a house goes out the window because the interest rates are so high you can't afford it. All of that is on Biden's shoulders. Stop blaming things on Trump and see reality for what it is, please. When Biden took over from President Trump, none of these a problem. It's all because of Biden and his horrible decisions. But go ahead and brag that you didn't vote for Trump. Sounds like you'll cut off your nose to spite your face.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You lost, trump! Now freakin' admit it! Can't wait to see him go to prison

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Donald Trump was the best president the US government ever had. He kept the attention on himself while the government screwed everyone in silence. The perfect clown

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our problems didn't start with him or Obama. It goes back to trickle-down economics. That same President sent allowed manufacturing to go overseas. This has been coming for 30 years.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Politicians and baby diapers have 1 big thing in common: the fact that they need to be changed regularly and for the same reason.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He definitely was the catalyst for the disease to speed up the infection in society in a HUGE way.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree. I think Trump is the seeping nipple of one of the "bigger diseases" here in the USA. The breast are the people who believed/believe in him to be some kind of middle class savior/radical/spokes-person when he was just using their need for attention & confirmation.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true. The sheer volume of problems he created while in office will be unfixable for at least one generation, if not more, and is causing us to move backwards at a terrifying speed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. And, if we allow him - or his supporters - back in office the things that are wrong are going to get worse and are going to become increasingly difficult to fix.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an American I agree. But people, be real, not all Americans are like the trash they so often over-focus on here on BP. - That’s like saying ALL Catholics are pedophiles, or ALL Europeans are arrogant. Nationalists. If you want to find fault, you will. Be better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But it did fix the thing about the double-digit-IQ wannabe-mafia-boss fascist who wants to dismantle the country from the inside. Gotta start somewhere.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh yeah. king joe and the camel toe are doing a much better job than trump. moron

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

America had never been stronger until Trump made us as strong as he did! Let's go Brandon

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump made this country a laughingstock. He was willing to sacrifice his VP because Pence refused to play into his delusion about losing the election. He fires or turns against any and everyone who doesn't kiss his a*s. The man is a spoiled child at best, and unhinged at worst.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My point is that the majority of people who voted for Trump will continue to NEED such attention & confirmation. So, in essence, I retract what I said earlier of "I disagree." I do agree. But I still think he is the "seeping nipple." Every human has a nipple ... so the metaphor still applies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump wasn't a good person but he ran the country a hell of a lot better than this dipshit but hey we get to vote in another dipshit that doesn't give two shits about us soon,then we can all fight over which one will make America great again or whatever dumb slogan they come up with!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was alright while in office. A bit mouthy but just another conservative. Certainly not the Messiah his idiot zealots think he is but was fun watch him p**s off the ultra-liberals. But no one likes a sore LOSER who kicks and screams and trashes the place on his way out. F him.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the basic problem is that our survival instincts are out of control. We keep feeding our desires way beyond what's necessary for physical survival and mental health. No one person or government can fix that, each person has to fix themself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same with voting him back in as so many wish to do in 2024

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have to disagree with this. Hear me out… I don’t really like to pick sides with politics because I think both side are absolutely horrible but what I have seen on the news with the left trying to take away the second amendment is scary. They think that by taking our second amendment rights away will lead to a safer place but it really won’t. There are so many school shootings and just shootings in general because people are sitting ducks if they don’t have the tools to defend themselves. Also if you look deeper into other countries that have banned guns evil people still find ways to kill and if those evil people in a gun banned country get their hands on a black market gun or literally any weapon, who is going to stop them from shootings up a store and killing 50 people before the police get there?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I truly appreciate your thoughtful response. As a gun-owning liberal, I have to disagree that we're trying to completely take away our 2nd amendment rights. I think we'd be happy to have assault rifles banned at least. What actual reason does a civilian need an AR for?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And choosing Biden so he can decimate the country financially sure didn't fix anything at all, but I'm just someone who is sick and tired of not being able to afford gas and food in the same paycheck.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, what specific policies and decisions from Biden led to this?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope you “feel” better at the gas station and grocery store.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being a democrap means you are correct 100% of the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone that disagrees with progressive liberal policies is a disease in your eyes. Y'all just posted about hearing differing opinions, as long as they aren't conservative, right? Because all conservatives are racist bigoted LGBT haters

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a big difference between being conservative and being a trumpster imho

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Poor Trump, he was FIRED by around 7 million votes, still can't face that.

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Can't believe you voted for Biden - he struggles to put a sentence together and now he has to run the country

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I guess ppl like inflation and super high gas prices, thank the idiot in the WH

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have both of those in UK, and I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with the current inhabitant of the White House. Or the last one

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One study of 2,000 adults across the United States, which was commissioned by global tour operator G Adventures, suggests that the average American spends 12 hours and 56 minutes escaping their reality each week. (That's roughly four years over a lifetime.)

The most popular forms of disconnecting from work, responsibilities, and everything else that drives them crazy came in the form of reading books (1 hour 34 minutes), watching movies (2 hours 37 minutes), and dreaming of vacations (44 minutes).

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Life is easier for attractive people.

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However, as previously mentioned, this can't go on forever and we need to come to terms with the world around us. Jeremy Sherman thinks people can make it easier for themselves by focusing on what he calls ironic fallibilism.

"An ironic situation is one where you get the opposite of what you expected: you do the right thing and it comes out wrong or vice versa. An ironic attitude is recognition that despite your best effort, ironic situations are not entirely escapable. There is no sure-fire formula for living. Just when you discover the meaning of life, it changes."

"Ironism is not cynicism. It's the recognition that life is deeply tragic and deeply slapstick. Life is tragicomic," he explained.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear We need to stop consuming animal products the way we currently are. It's absolutely unsustainable.

The amount of downvotes this post will receive proves the title of this post.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The key part of this is "the way we currently are", and this is very true. You don't have to be a vegan to not participate in the cruelty of intensive factory farming. It is possible to eat genuinely ethically raised animal products where the animal had a happy life - it's just really expensive. Killing is not inherently cruel - subjecting an animal to pain and terror before it's killed is.

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"Fallibilism is a concept in philosophy and more than any other notion, fallibilism has given me peace of mind about dealing with reality," Sherman continued. "I think of the fallibilist mantra as 'no matter how confident I am in a bet, I remain still more confident that it is a bet. Life is iffy guesswork. Yoda is wrong. There's only try. One can make better bets. One can bet with high confidence. One can't escape betting."

Sherman sees ironic fallibilism as the antidote to two unworkable approaches that are often combined:

The first one is fundamentalist hypocrisy, or pretending you have the formula for living though you don't, can't, and shouldn't live by it. And the second one is cynical hypocrisy, or pretending there's no formula so you can do whatever you want.

"[Jerks] (I'm a psychoproctologist) employ both. Everyone should live by their supposed fundamentalist formula that they cynically don't think they have to live by. No deed is too dirty for saints like them."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Just because you've been doing something longer than other people doesn't mean you're better at it (driving, job role, sports etc)

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Professor Noam Shpancer added that we should revise our expectation that life should be easy, and the attendant aversion to discomfort. "Hardship is not the end of the world," he said. "It is just the world. The default position for human beings is resilience. Normalizing the struggle is useful."

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"Second, accepting reality tends to be easier when we take a long-term perspective, because the danger and damage associated with a failure to face reality are usually obscured in the short run and clarify only in the long run. When making decisions, it is, therefore, useful to consider not only your present self but the well-being of your future self as well. When you fail to deal with the facts of your circumstance, you in effect sell out your future self."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear "You can achieve anything you put your mind to" is NOT true.

Not even close.

Genetics play a HUGE role in whether or not someone will be a good athlete, or a super successful scientist.

Can you be an "OK" athlete if you try really hard and practice really hard? Sure. Will you break world records or play for a professional team? No. You have to be especially gifted in the genetics department to do those sorts of things.

The same thing applies for mental pursuits. Not everyone is smart. Some people just don't... get it. You can try a million different ways of teaching a subject and some people just... won't... get it. Critical thinking (the ability to see a problem and visualize how to get a solution) comes MUCH MORE EASILY to some people than to others. Can you sit there and memorize things and get good grades and what not? Absolutely. Will you ever be a scientist who does extremely important research and solves the world's next huge problem? Probably not, unless you get hired because of nepotism are dragged along by someone who IS good at critical thinking.

Furthermore, much of what you CAN do is limited by who you know. If you're rich or your parents are rich and they know lots of people and have a large social network or a lot of people who want to please them for one reason or another, you'll likely find a job in whatever career you want to extremely easily provided you're not totally inept. If you're the first in your family to get a degree and aren't good at maintaining a social network you'll likely have an extremely hard time finding a job, even if you are the person best suited for the jobs you are applying for. Even if the job you're applying for is LITERALLY what you spent 5 years getting a PhD on, if you don't know somebody, you likely won't get that job.

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Finally, we must constantly work on educating ourselves and seeking knowledge that can provide answers to questions we sometimes can't even articulate. Shpancer believes that history is the subject to start with, as it "shows what happens to those who deny the facts, and about the scientific method, which shows that in refereeing competing truth claims, following the evidence is our best bet.

"'Facts,' said John Adams, 'are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.' The evidence wins out in the end. Don’t you want to be on the winning side?"

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear All children are innocent, but they’re not all good. Some people will grow up to be f*****g assholes regardless of what they’re exposed to.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Money can actually make your life happier.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up to a certain point. If you have 100 million or 500 million, then it might not make much difference.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear You need to have your views challenged.

Being around and positively engaging with people who disagree with you is one of the healthiest intellectual practices we can do.

Big_Muff_Pie , essica Da Rosa Report

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear The more children you have, the more you contribute to environmental decline. Literally nobody likes hearing this because HUMANS MUST REPRODUCE YADA YADA.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most true for Americans, and to a lesser extent the other "western" countries. There were 1 billion people on the planet in 1800. In 1950, there were 2.53 billion, 1980 4.43 billion, 1999 6 billion, 2011, 7 billion, today we sit at 7.95 billion, and will reach 8 billion people by next year. We can't effectively sustain the human population now, 1/3rd of food production ends up wasted, while 1/4 of the global population doesn't have enough to eat because getting it everywhere is a logistical nightmare, and yet a large portion of the population continues to think the only way to solve the big problems of the world is to stay the course, continue unchecked expansion and hope that solutions will be born along with the rising population. We've been playing this game for 40 years with the climate, and we're almost out of time. Yet the mindset seems unchanged.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Just because you love someone it doesn't mean they will love you back. No matter how hard you try to get them to, they just won't.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Everyone's a hypocrite. Even you.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear I guess to counter some people in here:

Not every "real talk", "tough to swallow pill", or "harsh truth" that you have to offer someone is going to be accurate to them, or their situation.

Sometimes you're actually a f*****g d**k that is incapable of considering their perspective or feeling empathy towards them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. Just let people be. Maybe things will work out for them. Maybe it won't. At least they tried. This is a huge problem with long distance relationship communities. You could have one minor question, seeking a boost of optimism. Then people want more information about the relationship. They use that information against the op and base dooming "opinions", some irrelevant to the op's main issue, on their own past experiences that could have been much, much different of a situation. I don't even bring it up anymore. Don't need to.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear There's going to be a day where you are totally forgotten by everyone.

PunchyPractitioner , Dan Meyers Report

#17

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Things are going to keep getting worse on our planet and we are in for some serious human tragedy.

LemmeLaroo , Li-An Lim Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's the thing, the planet is going to be fine, it's been around 4.5 billion years. It's the people who are F***ed

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#18

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Your spouse/child/home/job/vacation, etc. is not nearly as important to anyone else as it is to you.

tappytaps , Natalya Zaritskaya Report

#19

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear You can't control what happens to you, only how you react to it.

sheikhyerbouti , Jorge Saavedra Report

#20

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear That there are people who won’t like you or agree with you and you won’t be able to change their mind so you just have to deal with it

animeweebgrill , Ketut Subiyanto Report

#21

That all gods are man made, start taking responsibility for your own actions and stop thinking that some magical being is going to come and help you out.

JesusChristsGayLover Report

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#22

Your skin color / sexual orientation is the least interesting thing about you.

dreck_disp Report

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flutterbyy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you telling me my neon purple skin is the least interesting thing about me?? Oh well then.

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#23

Capitalism as it’s currently implemented doesn’t work and only increases the wealth of the wealthy at the cost of the poor, the oppressed, and the world. We are literally destroying our ability to live on this planet, and we’ll need drastic societal change to barely survive the coming era.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: social capitulation, a rare system used in some insignificant island nations and small Asian countries (tu mi au, xibi San ma) in which the basic necessities of survival are provided but to live comfortably you need to work. It’s an interesting system that seems to work well and I’d be willing to give it a try. An interesting blend of capitalism and socialism

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#24

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear There is always someone better than you

Planarian171 , Jonathan Chng Report

#25

So many of these are negative... So how about the truth that one of the best ways to be happy in life is by helping other people. People don't want to do it, because helping other people feels like you're losing out, but it's true

TimberDog12 Report

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is part of my mail .sig: "You're not a sucker to have integrity and treat people with respect." - Barack Obama

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#26

Sometimes, you are the toxic person

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#27

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No matter how nice you are, people will still just be assholes to you just cuz.

anon , Deva Darshan Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've dealt with people at work who tried so hard to get me upset. Like really reaching. There are people who will just try to get a reaction out of you, make you feel bad for doing your job, or even just being somewhere. What they really hate is calmness and positivity in their presence of negativity.

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#28

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear We don't know everything and probably never will.

joculator , Niklas Ohlrogge Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Curiosity is a major part of life. We need to have space to learn

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#29

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Your friends and family likely talk tons of s**t about you behind your back

CrustyTowel , Rui Fernandes Report

#30

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.

oyuno_miyumi Report

#31

You can’t love someone into loving you

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flutterbyy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SO many people need to understand this! For others' sake and for themselves as well.

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#32

That people need to stop putting their trust in god to do things and do it themselves

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#33

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Everyone you love will die. Everyone you hate will die. Everything ends.

6675636b5f6675636b , Pavel Danilyuk Report

#34

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Corona may never go away and be in our lives forever in some capacity.

fib16 , Gabriella Clare Marino Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or some other vaccine / antibiotic-resistant pandemic. I think COVID has definitely demonstrated rather graphically what I've feared has happened to people over the course of the last 30 year though - people have become more selfish and more prone to f*cking each other over, even for something as simple as a toilet roll - and far more opinionated and entitled when presented with something relatively simple that they could do to prevent getting infected or spreading an infection (like wearing a mask)

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#35

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No matter what you do you polluted the planet

Rusky82 , USDA NRCS Montana Report

#36

The only person responsible for -you- is -you-.

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#37

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Americans don't want to hear that Columbus murdered and enslaved people.

anon , Metropolitan Museum of Art Report

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SelkieBlackfysh
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not that they don't want to hear it. It's that they were taught a GROSSLY different version of the story. Though some probably would prefer to keep believing that old lie.

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#38

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No one really gives a s**t what your eyebrows look like.

amynivenskane , Rune Enstad Report

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Jayne Kyra
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if being and looking groomed and neat makes you feel good and happy, go for it. Not everything is about others´ opinions.

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#39

You are always replaceable.

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, thank god. I’m starting to wear out. They’d better replace me soon before one of my internal components breaks.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear You aren't special.

MrM0nday , Katie Montgomery Report

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