I am cringe and I am free.
I am corny for I am born on the cob.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Embrace the cringe
Destroy the part of you that cringes.
If you are confident you can be a bit embarrassing and people just like you more for it. You are open, unique, a bit quirky and cute. They laugh with you, not at you. At work people lower their guards around you and you get people to deliver quality and get shit done. Being well liked and often right is a killer combo in the engineering world.
Embrace the cringe, so that the cringe just becomes embarrassing, then it becomes good times and team building.
nahh dude, cringe doesn't mean "be yourself", cringe means that you make people feel uncomfortable. Don't be a dick, please.
It depends, I think, on if that thing should make them uncomfortable. Making someone uncomfortable because you're acting threatening or something is a bit different than making someone uncomfortable because they have unreasonable standards.
I hate to say it, but I think you are the one being a dick here my guy. I feel like calling people out for being themselves is more of a dick move than someone being themselves and making some people arbitrarily uncomfortable. You'll never be able to make everyone happy and forcing yourself to do so is a recipe for self doubt and an inability to self reflect in a healthy and constructive way. I'd rather be cringe any day of the week.
This is the path of the enlightened. Or, more likely, the path of the dad joke. Embrace the cringe and know its power
Receive the cringe. Cringest it.