You Don't Have to Feel Capable to Be Capable

If you watched my self-hatred video, this is the next layer. The part I didn't get to, because you can stop hating yourself and still not believe a single good thing about who you are. I spent a long time reading philosophy trying to make sense of that gap, why I could look at real evidence about my own capability and still feel like none of it counted. And most of what I read helped me understand what I was feeling without ever giving me a way to stop letting those feelings override everything I actually knew about myself. Then I found Machiavelli, who turned out to be the philosopher I needed precisely because he doesn't care about feelings at all, only about what you actually do when the circumstances are in front of you, and that distinction between a philosophy that explains how you feel and a philosophy that makes how you feel beside the point ended up mattering more to me than anything else I've read. Discord:   / discord