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bradmillscan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 There was a stare challenge a while back that I partook in.

It was a confidence building challenge which stated that whenever you locked eyes with a stranger, you couldn’t instinctively look away.

You had to stay looking at them as long as they kept eye contact.

The challenge was to do it 5 times.

One of the hardest things I ever did.
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Brisket | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah - I recall doing something similar. It was from a book that you were supposed to work your way through.

The title of the book escapes me now.

I think most of us have felt the pain of social rejection. Of being laughed at & teased, particularly as children & young adults. We carry these traumas into adulthood until we can clear them.

I wish I could remember that book now.