Aaron Balick 🍉
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Leading voice on how tech & culture shape the psyche. Psychotherapist | Consultant | Psych writer at GQ | Keynote speaker | Author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking | aaronbalick.com
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I think I was in my mid-forties before I worked out that the NATO phonetic alphabet was fixed and not something you just made up on the fly.

No wonder I always frustrated call centre operators with my,
“P as in perspicacity” and the like.
I did the same with Atonement!
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Imagine it’s 100 years in the future and your a scholar of English Lit. 1990 - 2030 (before the degradation and inundation). This is how you’d imagine us, from the mind of the wonderful Ian McEwan in “What We Can Know”:

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We thrill in horror at their feistiness. They were loud, hungry, reckless and free, except for the hundreds of millions they left behind.”

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They were big and brave, superb scholars and scientists, musicians, actors and athletes, and they were idiots who were throwing it all away, even as their high culture lamented or roared in pain.

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Such liberty and abandon, such fearful defi-ance. They were brilliant in their avarice, quarrelsome beyond imagining, ready to die for bad and good ideas alike. As science extended its domain, religious belief and conspiracy theories swelled.

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Then, of course, hardly worth repeating, they watched amazed as the decades sped by and the Derangement gathered pace, the weapons proliferated and they did little, even as they knew what was coming and What was needed.

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But they also spelled out the human genome, invented the internet, made a start on AI and placed a beautiful golden telescope a million miles out in space.

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“What brilliant invention and bone-headed greed. What music, what tasteless art, what wild breaks and sense of humour: people flying 2,000 miles for a one-week holiday; buildings that touched the cloud base; razing ancient forests to make paper to wipe their back-sides.

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Imagine it’s 100 years in the future and your a scholar of English Lit. 1990 - 2030 (before the degradation and inundation). This is how you’d imagine us, from the mind of the wonderful Ian McEwan in “What We Can Know”:

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If you read this as my implying thar RFK and Trump have an inferiority complex, I won’t argue.

Psychologically, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a developmental achievement. Overconfidence is a tell-tale sign of compensating for feelings of inadequacy.

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/why-...
Why the world needs more imposter syndrome, not less
Feel inadequate or out of your depth? Believe or not, it's usually a good sign. Meanwhile people incapable of doubting themselves are wreaking havoc in the world
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
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“I’ve trained scores of therapists only to find that the self-doubting ones worry me a lot less than those that are overly certain.”
- @aaronbalick.com

A great article 👏🏻