How To Care Less Without Being Careless

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A single cruel comment can hijack a perfectly good morning—until a mentor answers with two small words that pull the plug on the spiral. We share the exact moment a YouTube jab sparked anger, the breathless call for backup, and the calm, disarming response that turned fury into freedom. From there, we unpack how a simple question—“So what?”—helps separate what deserves action from what deserves release, and why that difference protects your time, mood, and focus. And, if you want more access ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.8	Do you just want to care less, but you worry about being careless?
0:16.7	Stick with me. I have a treat for you today. I'm reading a chapter or a portion of a chapter of my book. Stop checking your likes. It's chapter four. And it is called, so what. What a good question. So what? You're going to want to employ it more.
0:35.6	Okay. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize
0:40.8	how good things really are. One day I was procrastinating online. It was like any other morning.
0:48.9	English breakfast tea by my side, hair and a ponytail, my little dog coconut on my lap, a million tabs open. And then,
0:56.9	yay, I decided to check out my YouTube channel's comment section. I thought, oh, read the comments,
1:03.9	they said, it'll be fun. They said, little did I know. There it was, one of the meanest comments I've ever seen. There's nothing like
1:14.1	seeing a hurtful comment pop up on your screen completely out of the blue, especially when you're in
1:19.4	your sweats, cozy enough in your favorite part of the sofa, feeling ready to start the day,
1:24.5	thinking pretty good thoughts about the world. My hurt quickly turned to anger. I was
1:29.7	seething. I was almost red in the face mad by this comment and I stood up fast and my poor startled
1:35.8	dog leapt to the floor and I ran to find my phone. I promptly called my Scottish friend and mentor
1:41.9	Fiona in a rush tough and before she even had a chance to say hello, I charged in.
1:46.8	Guess what? This skanky troll online said I look like a man and that I'm gross.
1:54.5	Silence. Was she there?
1:57.9	Hello, I asked, uncertain. Yeah, I'm here. So what? She asked me. So what? There it was two words,
2:09.1	and one of the best questions I've ever been asked, because truly, so what? That took the wind
2:16.5	out of my cells. I mean, the drama flew out of the conversation
2:19.2	like a popped balloon. Her casual question was so disorienting because it was the best possible
2:25.3	response in the world. It made me want to laugh. So what? Precisely. I mean, what's it to me? My friends, are you asking yourself this question enough?
2:39.7	So what? When something goes wrong? So what? Meetings cancelled. So what? So what? It doesn't mean we don't
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