>> Why We Have This Emotion
Disillusionment hits us with hard reality and pushes us to update our beliefs. A role model or brand who's just shown who they really are. A test that shows we aren't as gifted as we thought.
◎ What to do in the moment
Good Ideas
- Mourning a lost belief is okay
- Your experience isn't "fake" now
- What did you learn the hard way?
- Applaud actions, don't idolize people
- Inflexible ideas make fragile beliefs
- A belief you can't afford to lose is a belief that you can't examine
Bad Ideas
- Treat all optimism as naïve
- Criticize yourself for having believed
- Force disillusionment on others
- Pretend that those values were never that important to you, anyway
- Adopt cynicism to defend yourself from future disillusionment