Should you care about what others think? Do you even have a choice?

Thoughts on if it's right or not to care about what others think online.

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Do you care about what others think?

Hi Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

We get together nightly and have a little discussion regarding business concepts, but really human concepts, then we use businesses as an excuse to talk about right.

So a lot of times will surround the conversation with business owners or executives, people who are decision-makers in their business. But if you're interested in what we're talking about, glad to have you here.

Today, I wanted to talk about the whole concept of whether you care what other people think. And there's a very common meme or concept that gets put out over social media all over the place.

I've seen it on Instagram, I've seen it on LinkedIn, I've seen it on Facebook, all these different places. And the concept behind it is, I don't care what other people think.

I get that, I understand what is trying to be said there.

The thing is, is that presenting it that way, publicly, I'm not sure if it's achieving what you want it to achieve. So I'd like you to add, if you've posted something like that, I want you to ask yourself, why?

What am I hoping to get from this, the fact that you're posting something publicly about that belief shows that you do care about what other people think otherwise, why would you post it publicly. You'd write it somewhere privately and keep it like that.

We do have to care somewhat what other people think.

Now, there's a bunch of different ways you could parse this out, you could say, I don't worry about what other people think or I don't worry about how people react to me, or I don't worry about people's opinions, or feelings.

There's a whole lot of ways you could talk about the same thing, but the emphasis is in a different spot there. If you say something like that, what you're really saying is you don't worry. Which is great, I think it's something that's great to say, and it means something and it can start a conversation about the mean when you say I just don't care.

Well, what's that mean?

You don't judge your opinions based on what other people think, you know, what are you trying to achieve by letting everybody know that you don't care about what they think.

Because in the end life is really about knowing the right thing for you to do. And then not being concerned with how other people react to it. I totally get that not being worried and get yourself into the whole emotional game that everyone always finds themselves playing, I get that part that makes a whole lot of sense.

The thing is, is in the end, though, it tends to take you full circle to a point of helping other people. People that have got their stuff together, don't need to care about what other people think in order that they can care about what other people think.

And in the end, it really comes down to helping other people live a whole chunk of life is about helping other people. You can't help other people if you're dependent on what they think and what they feel. So I'm not against the idea in and of itself.

I think it's an okay idea.

I it's probably an issue with English itself.

English and the fact that most of us don't do really well with l...