Thick skin is a self-defense mechanism, and everyone has a breaking point
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The reason the reason that I have thick skin, 99 percent of the time on. On this project is because if it's a self-defense mechanism, if I don't, if I let this stuff get to me, it really gets me hard
Episode 213: The Substrate (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:08:40 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
After a hurtful exchange over the image tag, Dave explains that his thick skin on the project is self-defense. If he lets criticism get to him, it hits hard and spills into his life, so sometimes he keeps an emotional and mental distance, which can look like ignoring people. He doesn't mute or block people; he chooses to be open about how things make him feel, because even thick skin has a breaking point.
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Episode 213: The Substrate (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:09:13 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
It's because I'm trying to keep my emotional and mental distance from criticism.
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Episode 213: The Substrate (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:29:20 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
am going to be, you know, I am going to be open about the way that it makes me feel. And, you know, I do have thick skin, but everybody has a breaking point.
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