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Creutzer comments on Hoping to start a discussion about overcoming insecurity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Creutzer 24 September 2013 05:58:49AM *  2 points [-]

Well, failure to be rejected in a situation where rejection could plausibly occur helps. In my experience, the trouble with that is that you have to continually experience it over a longer period of time, because otherwise your brain's going to think it was just a fluke.