Psychology
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13 hours agoI stopped explaining myself to people who had already decided who I was, and the amount of energy that came back was so immediate I realized self-justification had been running in the background for years like a program I never installed - Silicon Canals
Chronic self-justification consumes significant mental energy through preemptive defense of decisions to people who may never question them, representing an invisible cognitive burden most people unknowingly carry.