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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 80 - Why 'Love Yourself' Is Horrible Advice

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We are far too focused on self-love these days. People have come to believe that self-love is the starting point, and goal, of human life. It isn't. Self-love hardly even makes sense as a concept, and in practice it almost always translates into narcissism. Let's talk about why we should stop worrying about loving ourselves and focus instead on loving others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So I wanted to build on something that we talked about yesterday.

0:35.0

And that is, if you remember, we talked about social media and how social media fuels

0:41.1

our narcissism and causes us to think about ourselves, focus on ourselves in an inordinate

0:46.6

amount. And this is where a lot of the self-esteem issues come from. It's not that we think badly

0:53.7

about ourselves in this culture. It's just that we think about ourselves way too often.

0:58.9

We spend way too much time thinking about ourselves. And when we do that, of course, we're

1:03.1

going to notice our flaws. And of course, we're going to be obsessed with those flaws

1:07.1

because we're obsessed with ourselves. And then we chalk that up to a self-esteem problem.

1:12.5

When really it's a narcissism problem, it's almost the opposite of a self-esteem problem.

1:18.4

And now that isn't to say that we should never notice our flaws. We have to be we need

1:22.6

to be self-aware. We need to know that we have flaws. But we shouldn't spend all day noticing

1:27.5

them. And the best thing to do with a character flaw or a moral flaw is to once you notice

1:34.3

it to then just set out to correct it. To live your life and try to correct it in the way

1:41.0

that you live your life. And the best thing to do with a with an unfixable physical flaw

1:46.2

is to just forget it. And again, live your life. Either way, the process is harder and

1:53.8

we are interfering with it when we are too focused on ourselves. Now, I mentioned that

2:01.1

I think these these love yourself embrace your flaws, types of campaigns are misguided.

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