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[pedanther]

I had wondered why the closing down sale for the Fluent Self online store didn't include The Monster Manual, which was kind of a flagship product. It turns out it's because The Monster Manual is the one thing that's still being sold now the store has closed.

Monsters, in Fluent Self parlance, are the creatures that squat in our heads and try to stop us doing things, because doing things will inevitably lead to getting things wrong and suffering horrible agonizing failure. I have my share chewing on me, and I've found that even just reading the description of the book was helpful. (The book itself I have not read yet; I probably would have bought it if it had been in the last chance closing down sale, but since it's available indefinitely, normal "well, maybe later" service has resumed.)

I was going back and forth about whether to do another Fluent Self post - would I be going on about it too much? - when I noticed that literally the first monster in the list of examples is "The 'PUHleeeeeeze, everyone else is doing the thing you want to do better than you ever could so why even bother - really why are you still even thinking about this' monster", which there have been sightings of in these parts recently - so I figured it was worth at least mentioning.

(The list also includes both "The 'Why even bother getting out of bed' monster" and "The 'Jeez, would you just get your pathetic lazy ass out of bed already' monster", which would be funny if it weren't so true.)

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[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

This post made me smile. I had never thought to name them as monsters, but now that you come to mention it, it's perfect! And the notion of putting them into a colouring book is perfect too. The 'PUHleeeeeeze, everyone else is doing the thing you want to do better than you ever could so why even bother - really why are you still even thinking about this' monster has been particularly energetic of late. If it's been giving you a hard time as well, it's a wonder it doesn't spread itself too thin.

Thank you for the smile!