The title is misleading. He really advocates for leaving your comfort zone.
That said, I would really love it if everybody could calm down and stop getting offended so much.
Realize that from the perspective of the other person, YOU are the one spewing obvious falsehoods and uttering offensive things. Everybody is the hero in their story.
Yes, some trolls are out to cause offense. You know what empowers and enables those people? Success. If anyone actually does get offended by their trollery.
I feel like the only way to show how strenuously I object to this article within the context of this article is to say how much it offends me, but that would be ceding terms to the article, and wildly untrue
I believe that taking offense is a choice, and one that we make far too often, and one that makes it easier to continue making the more one makes it. Decisions made of emotion are not decisions made, and "being offended" seems to me to inject emotion into an issue. That may or may not be okay, but it imo doesn't benefit analysis or discussion in a rational context.
That said, I would really love it if everybody could calm down and stop getting offended so much.
Realize that from the perspective of the other person, YOU are the one spewing obvious falsehoods and uttering offensive things. Everybody is the hero in their story.
Yes, some trolls are out to cause offense. You know what empowers and enables those people? Success. If anyone actually does get offended by their trollery.