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Why You Keep Trying To Impress Others & How To Stop
Think about why you want to impress those around you.
What is in it for you?
Many think that we want to impress others because we want people around us.
We want to be liked, want to feel connected to them or make relationships happen for us.
The truth, however, is a bit more complicated, but crucial to understand how you can stop yourself from trying to impress others.
When we try to impress others it is mostly to feel validated in our choices.
Think about it this way:
We go through life having no real idea of what we want.
We do not know ourselves, do not know our desires, dreams, goals and have barely any connection to who we are supposed to be.
As children we at least got inputs through the smiles and encouragements of our parents, but as we grew older we lost touch with what we were supposed to do, as they also did not know.
It is for this reason that we wish to impress those we come into contact with.
For if they are impressed by what we do, it likely means that we are on the right path… or so we think at least.
