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So today's episode how to not care what people think is hilarious because in recording this solo episode, I asked the producer to leave the room because I get so weird when I'm recording solo episodes, I feel so uncomfortable with people being in the room.

And I say there's just something about me wanting to be just with you psychically and not have anyone watching me or looking at me.

So in my episode talking about not caring what people think I'm in a full face of makeup with fully done hair asking my producer to leave.

So it's kind of the point of the episode to really talk about our desire to not have people think anything of us or a desire to get over the fact that we do care what people think.

I think there's the part of me that really understands the experience of wanting to be like that like key key kind of snappy like who cares what people think everyone's a loser everyone sucks no one's doing anything interesting.

It's so lame to care what people think but I just don't think that's the case of being a human on earth. I think part of our experience is knowing that people care about us and caring what other people think.

But in this episode I really want to talk about our human nature of why we care what other people think the fact that we are social creatures we are social animals it's very normal talk about sort of the socialization we've had from a very young age where a lot of us.

Our worth was based on if other people liked us for a lot of us our love was conditional and it meant that we were loved if people liked us that.

I think it's important to know that we are all talking about what other people's opinions of us is really part of a survival mechanism that's really as old as humanity is and so it's completely normal and it's a part of our process of evolution to care what people think but I think my goal is to really talk about and be in better relationship to the opinions of others.

So how can we support ourselves in coming home to ourselves in validating our opinion of ourselves first and our experience first how can we navigate the human experience as social creatures who value other people's opinions and how can we really just become more confident in ourselves throughout this entire process.

I was with caring what people think and my experience in having waves of it where I've cared a lot more than others I remember when I was a teenager I was like I don't care people think like who cares what people think I was like that inner teen rebel phase.

Where in caring the most what people think I assumed that I didn't for some reason and I just think it's so hilarious how sometimes when we are that specific or we have that much energy towards something even if it's against it it's usually it's also towards so when I'm like I don't care what people think I'm caring the most what people think when I was a teen and as I've gotten older being now a public figure someone that I'm not going to be able to do that.

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