Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Care What Others Think About You

By: sarah kim

sarah kim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:50:43 +0000

this topic makes me think that so many things in the world are contradictory.
Then why love, and why live?.. when one should not care about others? Are we living just to leave a mark in the world or some contributions? Nothing makes sense then…

I think what we want here is a balance… which is so f ing hard to achieve.

And “not care about what others think” is type of saying where you just get the logic, but cannot put it into action in real life. I try to just not involve with people too different from me… but sometimes it does not work. For example, my fraternal twin brother is so different from me, and I bet half of the people around me thinks I am a biggest loser hearing things from him. And I still get bothered by what he says about me to the others..ever since I was a middle schooler!

By: Apurva J. Shah

Apurva J. Shah — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:33:20 +0000

This has got to be my favorite PicktheBrain post of all time. Absolutely incredible & so very true. Mirrors the philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead), which relays that “the human ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

By: Apurva J. Shah

Apurva J. Shah — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:18:31 +0000

This has got to be my favorite PicktheBrain post of all time. Simply awesome.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:28:27 +0000

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By: Lerato Mmutle

Lerato Mmutle — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:55:32 +0000

Yeah… I’m battling between not caring what people say and caring about other people. The difference is slight.

By: jj

jj — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:02:53 +0000

So how long have you been a morally corrupt socialpath?

See, if one were to truly not care what others think, then we would be at the very bottom of the moral abiss. We would take what we want, do as we please, and have no remorse for it. Yep, that would be a socialpath.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:33:33 +0000

hey, its always nice to read a post that reminds you how simple things can be, thanks for the read

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:46:28 +0000

Great post and so very true. If we give in to what others think of us there is no way that we can achieve our true potential. This makes me think of Azeem Kayum, author of Wrestling With the Goddess. He has struggled to overcome a lot of physical and mental challenges and if he listened to what everyone had thought of him, he would never have achieved the success that he has.

By: Andreea

Andreea — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:25:04 +0000

I think that once you start caring for what other people say or think more that for who you really are, you start to lose your self. Obviously, the society wants you to be in a certain way, but who you are and what you like should make a difference. it would be very nice if we could care less for other’s opinions and more for ourselves. Certainly, we would be happier.

By: sonali

sonali — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:01:36 +0000

I’ve been guilty of vacillating between two extremes. Either i worry incessantly about what people are going to think about a particular behaviour. Or I don’t care at all.

Either way, I think, is not good.

This article is brilliant. I’ve read and re-read this a hundred times. Even forwarded it to friends who i think need it. Thanks Michael.