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Allowing yourself to be a good person even when you do something bad is the best way to actually do good things. Because seeing yourself as a good person won't depend on you needing your actions to be right. You can entertain healthy doubt honestly and naturally.
To put it concisely— If you're worried about being a bad person, you're going to come across weirdly. If you fundamentally regard yourself as a good person, you might not get everything right, but you're going to be a hell of a lot more present to receive it.
@AskYatharth This only works past a certain level of conscientiousness If you are having *trouble* because of thinking of yourself in as a bad person, then it's probably making you be weird Many people can stand to hear the reverse, lest they justify anything they do https://t.co/LzbcKEfPWY
@AskYatharth But also: I will basically never shut up about this https://t.co/8UF3Tb1lS3
People who think they're Good are usually Bad People who are worried they're Bad are usually Good People who know this and think they're Bad, knowing that it makes them Good? Are usually Bad, but harmlessly so. People who don't believe in Good and Bad? Are as Bad as it gets.
Strong “Law of Equal and Opposite Advice” vibes here, that’s def where I’m coming from. https://t.co/Sj9aq5w1JY
@AskYatharth This only works past a certain level of conscientiousness If you are having *trouble* because of thinking of yourself in as a bad person, then it's probably making you be weird Many people can stand to hear the reverse, lest they justify anything they do https://t.co/LzbcKEfPWY
Different lens on the same insight. https://t.co/IW7es1vHFG
Giving yourself permission to be immoral and irrational is probably the single best thing you can do for being more moral and more rational, because it means you don't end up massively in denial and rationalising your behaviour when you inevitable fall short of your ideals.