TheOtherDave comments on Don't Get Offended - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 March 2013 04:43:20PM 3 points [-]

When I want to invoke it for performance reasons, I start by building up a strong sense of entitlement. "I am more important than everyone else, I am special, I am right, I deserve deference, I deserve special treatment, I deserve satisfaction at the expense of others," that sort of thing. Then I look at the things in my environment that violate that sense of entitlement. Offense (or outrage, if I make the differential high enough) follows naturally for me.