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Submitted by sylsau t3_yxjlbv in GetMotivated
How to tell if your motivational message is a bad one: Would it be applicable to Putin? Similarly , would would it gaslight someone who is in a toxic relationship? If yes to either, it’s a bad motivational message.
Do you have an example of a better quote? Not asking rhetorically, just curious to see a comparison to something that is a constant truth.
Edit:
After reading your post I imagined telling this quote to a POW or a person in a concentration camp. In modern day maybe this would be considered a "white (read as 1st world) privilege" quote.
Funny enough I had initially found it somewhat motivational. But it's clearly something an authoritarian could say to make someone submissive to their ways.
But maybe it's all semantics and requires proper context.
Most “motivational quotes” are just toxic positivity. To really give someone motivation you’d have to know and understand someone, and acknowledge the shite they’re in that makes a motivational speech useful to them.
"It requires proper contex" nailed it. The post is talking about a general sense of trust in one's instincts and a sense that you have to commit to doing something. If you realize a mistake you may fix it and it also can be part of your path. But there's the dilemma of personal vs. social responsibility. I know that at times I trust myself and let go of the social situations I do better. You have more control over yourself. But what about when you have to protest and lobby for your goals. You have to cry for justice in a society. What if you are marginalized? Even at that point one may reason that your trust in yourself makes you a better campaigner for social causes. But it's a dilemma.
Yup, 99% of "motivational" messages are trash.
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