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Shoulds, Musts, Oughts

mostly do not work for me

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At one point in my life I realized that even in my childhood telling me to not do something just turned around in my brain to: OK that's the thing for me to do.

Yes — it is learning from negatives or whatever psychological concept one wants to use to label this — but I grew up in…