Episode 62: Why I Think “Don’t take things personally” is kinda bullshit

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

I may very well be pissing off the personal development Gods today, but bear with me. If you dabble in self-help at all, you’ve probably heard the advice of not taking things personally. If you’re new to this advice or need some clarification, what the message is saying is: If you take the words and actions of others personally, it’s easy to fall into the victim role, spend your life chasing approval from others, and just generally making everything about you when it isn’t. I totally get that and agree. But, here’s what I don’t like and what I take issue with. People hear this advice and look at it as being very black or white. Either we don’t take things personally at all and feel good about ourselves, or we do take things personally and live in this hellfire and brimstone world of damnation where we are victims and prey to others. Yes, that was dramatic, but sometimes self-help can be make people feel like YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.1	Andrea Owen.
1:04.7	Hey, ass kickers.
1:06.0	Welcome to another episode of my podcast.
1:09.7	And I am very excited to be back again. I'm going to roll.
1:13.4	It's time to go solo on these solo podcast episodes. And the last time I did, so it was two weeks
1:20.0	ago. Last week we had Rebecca on as a guest and the week before that I drank way too much
1:25.7	coffee. Truth be told, I edited out six full minutes.
1:31.2	Originally that episode was like 21 minutes long.
1:33.5	And when I was done editing it, it was 15 minutes long because I just took out a bunch of
1:37.6	nonsense.
1:38.4	I was like going off on these weird soapbox tangents.
1:41.1	And I'm like, dude, I need to slow down on the coffee. So I have done that.
1:46.5	I have, I just am being a little bit more mindful around the coffee. So today is, I'm recording
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