A short spoken excerpt from Dr. Aziz (YouTube) advising listeners to reduce excessive concern about others' opinions. He frames caring too much as a spectrum: at one extreme is an unhealthy preoccupation with others' judgments, while the opposite extreme approaches narcissism; the goal is a balanced, healthy level of self-regard that includes confident energy.
If you listen to the show or my YouTube channel or read my books, that's a big focus of what I'm teaching and helping people do, is to stop caring so much about what others think of you, what other people think. You are overly concerned with the thoughts, opinions, perspectives, judgments, and feelings of other people. So at the other extreme of this spectrum would almost be like a phobia. And at the same time, though, you have to go up that spectrum a little bit, because otherwise you are. You're completely limited. You're. Yeah, a little bit toward narcissism. You won't walk up that spectrum to a healthy level because a healthy level involves a certain whatever energy that that narcissist has.
