If there is to be some particular mindset that might help, though, it perhaps starts with subtle reminders—reminders of whatever helps regain perspective about how little others care, how little the world cares, how absurd it is to be and function as what you are, and that any moments of clarity, coolness, and success, when they come, are to be appreciated for what they are: unusual, heroic transcendental moments of victory over the norm of the human condition. If, like Sartre suggests, we see ourselves by being seen by others, or as Charles Cooley put it, “I am not who you think I am; I am
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