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Psychology says people who genuinely don't need constant validation aren't emotionally detached - they display these 9 traits that come from learning early in life that approval from others was never going to be reliable - Silicon Canals

Confident people who don't seek validation have developed internal metrics for self-worth and learned that external approval is unreliable, often from early experiences where validation was absent or conditional.

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I'm 66 and I finally stopped trying to impress people who were never actually paying attention - and the silence taught me that most of what I thought mattered was just performance anxiety dressed up as ambition - Silicon Canals

I spent forty years trying to impress people who probably forgot my name five minutes after I left their house. That's a hell of a thing to admit at sixty-six. But there it is. I've been retired for a couple years now, and the quiet has taught me things I was too busy to learn when I was running around with a van full of wire and a head full of worry.

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Psychology says people who genuinely don't need constant validation aren't emotionally detached - they display these 9 traits that come from learning early in life that approval from others was never going to be reliable - Silicon Canals

I'm 66 and I finally stopped trying to impress people who were never actually paying attention - and the silence taught me that most of what I thought mattered was just performance anxiety dressed up as ambition - Silicon Canals

#self-worth-and-validation
#self-worth-and-validation