It's Me, Tinx How to Not Take Things Personally
Oct 3, 2025
A candid dive into why you should stop taking things personally and how that shift saves energy in work and relationships. A look at how social media and personal branding make small slights feel huge. Practical scenes on dating — from ghosting to one-night stands — reframed as reflections of others, not your worth. Short, relatable takes on handling online critics and differing opinions.
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Personalizing Criticism Harms Work Life And Energy
- Taking things personally makes you hard to work with, hard to be friends with, and wastes energy.
- Tinx highlights these three concrete costs as the core reason to stop internalizing slights, especially online.
Personal Brand Culture Makes Every Preference A Target
- The rise of individualism and personal branding turns mundane choices into identity markers.
- Tinx explains toothpaste, TV shows, and even zodiac signs are treated as extensions of self, increasing sensitivity to criticism.
Refuse To Give Strangers Power To Offend You
- Don't let strangers or people who don't know you have the power to offend you.
- Tinx invokes Eleanor Roosevelt's idea that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent and urges withholding that consent online.