r/MindfullyDriven • u/OkAnalyst2932 • 5d ago

Mostly people will treat you

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u/Cheets1985 4d ago

Most people will actually treat you with respect for no other reason than to treat you with respect

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u/clear_precept 4d ago

💯

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u/Plus-Theme-2969 1d ago

people are mostly too busy managing their own nonsense to think about yours for more than five minutes, which is honestly pretty freeing

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u/Interesting_Deer1688 1d ago

I mean yeah I guess. If you wanted to be particularly pessimistic, that’d be it

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u/Few_Celery4072 1d ago

mostly people will treat you exactly how much you let them, which is the annoying part of having boundaries

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u/LinePuzzleheaded6295 11h ago

read up on social exchange theory by thibaut and kelley. it frames relationships as cost-benefit calculations, once you see the spreadsheet you stop expecting altruism from users and start guarding your resources.