Emma Chamberlain

Like everything was so different that I don't know, perhaps this is just kind of a hypothesis, but it's like, perhaps our brains were wired to care about what our close knit community thought about us and

for survival purposes.

And now it's almost like we have a tendency to overcorrect because we don't need it as much.

Does that make sense?

Or not that we don't need it as much, but yeah, maybe we don't need it in the same way.

I don't know.

It feels like an evolutionary misfire in the brain.

Does that make sense?

Like it feels like something that used to benefit us, it's like not serving us anymore.

And now we care way too much about what other people think about us.

And it deeply impacts our sense of self and our sense of worth in a way that's detrimental.

And it's so common that that's why it feels like to me, something similar to anxiety, which is also so common.

It's like, this must be a part of our brain that hasn't quite evolved to the new situation that we're living in today.

Again, I might have just went off on a tangent that is completely scientifically inaccurate and false, but this is just my scientific hypothesis that I will never test because I'm not a scientist.

But it's almost like, you know, it's important that we pay attention to what other people think about us so that we can learn from it.

But if we put too much weight on it, then we can hurt ourselves.

And then we're drawing conclusions about ourselves and our worth from things that we shouldn't be.

Some examples of being too influenced by other people's opinions of you.

in a way that's detrimental, in a way that's harmful would be number one, someone you have a crush on doesn't like you back and you take it personal.

It makes you feel like shit about yourself.