Expectations And Self-Love By Richard Feynman

Part A

Task 1)

Expectations and self-love

Even though I really liked most of the quotes, there was one that really appealed to me. The quote I liked the most was the one by Richard Feynman, because it was the one I agreed the most with. I think we 'd all be a lot happier if we stopped worrying about what others think we should accomplish and rather focus on what we ourselves want to do.

When people have expectations for us we usually become a lot harder on ourselves and bring ourselves down for not succeeding at what others think we should succeed at. It brings us down a lot emotionally and mentally, even though we really shouldn 't care this much. But the sad truth is that we value others opinions of us more than what we think of ourselves. In the quote Feynman says that we don 't really have to live up to all these expectations that people, and society as a whole have laid out for us, which is something I really agree with.

Confidence to me is being comfortable in being yourself. Not a lot of people are these days and it 's really sad, but it also makes a lot of sense. We are quite a wealthy and privileged generation from a first world country so we don 't really have the same problems as those from third world countries, but we do have a lot of self made problems. Aside from global warming and all those things that we 're probably mostly responsible for, we have created a society that teach us from the moment we were born that hating yourself is the standard.

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