Joanne Smith argues that chasing external validation is pointless. Instead, stay anchored in the present moment, embrace repetition and pain as part of being human, and let emotional detachment happen naturally over time until you simply stop caring what others think.
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Repetition, patience, and my infinity. So each time that things happen, because we're all humans, we need to have sensations, we need to have pain, we need to have these things, we can't survive without them, not for long anyway, then it's just about reassuring yourself, ah, I'm actually not failing, I'm doing good, and I'm actually doing better than I've ever done before. focusing on where you are at now, so not getting too lost in a past or too far into a future that's not— that doesn't exist yet, or a past that's already gone, so no longer exists. We only have now. So it's just about not blaming yourself, knowing actually it's a— it's not a measure of success anyway, so why do I even care? Because it really is about getting to that Point where you actually don't care anymore. And it's not something that you can just do. You can't just not care anymore. It happens over a period of time. It's like a natural process that you go through on the journey where you do finally hit a point where you're just not bothered anymore. You just don't care anymore. I'm like that with my back. Don't care if