are you insecure and want to boost your ego online? try learning something very difficult and then loudly telling everyone how easy it is. shoehorn it into every conversation. make sure that everyone knows how superior it is to all of the alternatives

people will either tell you that it’s too difficult, in which case you can condescend to them and stroke your own ego in the process

or they’ll agree with you that it’s easy, and you can stroke each other’s egos about it

there is certainly nothing mentally unhealthy about doing this. this should be where most of your self-worth comes from

@kasdeya oh is this what i'm supposed to do? well shit, have i been doing it wrong.

i learned something very difficult and then got self conscious about not being as good at the thing as other people who know the difficult thing and have been doing it longer of have more energy and drive to do the thing, and have my impostor syndrome made worse because of it; to the point of not wanting to the thing anymore.

how foolish of me!

@Jenetrix omg I relate to this so much