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		<title>By: Zeno Izen</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11875</link>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Izen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ya this is an old post, but I&#039;m catching up... and this one here is a treasure trove.  Comments included.

Tee hee.  &amp; thanks.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya this is an old post, but I&#8217;m catching up&#8230; and this one here is a treasure trove.  Comments included.</p>
<p>Tee hee.  &#038; thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11874</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sam

Are you really trying that hard to sound funny?

Of course I&#039;m not asking for the specific hour that a person transforms into a mature selfless person, I&#039;m wondering about the stage in life that a person matures out of this.

I&#039;m being dead serious, stop the attempt at sounding witty and sharp, no one is impressed and I can see through to your desperation like glass.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sam</p>
<p>Are you really trying that hard to sound funny?</p>
<p>Of course I&#8217;m not asking for the specific hour that a person transforms into a mature selfless person, I&#8217;m wondering about the stage in life that a person matures out of this.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m being dead serious, stop the attempt at sounding witty and sharp, no one is impressed and I can see through to your desperation like glass.</p>
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		<title>By: Koji</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11873</link>
		<dc:creator>Koji</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aren&#039;t all artists and geniuses and crazy people narcissistic? If they whispered their messages, or tucked their poems in their pockets and didn&#039;t share them- with real or imagined readers, five or 50,000- they&#039;d just be even more tortured.

Often this blogging and everything else is not about megalomaniac vanity, but instead a sort of &#039;call and response&#039; type exercise. is anyone out there? maybe. maybe not. who cares? it&#039;s supposed to be about the process and not the destination.  some people get there, get famous. others don&#039;t care if they get there or not, they just keep doing it. yes, it&#039;s kind of sad and maybe laughable to a snarky person that would have taken the time to deconstruct someone&#039;s 33 &#039;followers,&#039; but our society is becoming more and more isolated, and the core word in the phrase imaginary audience is audience. it&#039;s something.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aren&#8217;t all artists and geniuses and crazy people narcissistic? If they whispered their messages, or tucked their poems in their pockets and didn&#8217;t share them- with real or imagined readers, five or 50,000- they&#8217;d just be even more tortured.</p>
<p>Often this blogging and everything else is not about megalomaniac vanity, but instead a sort of &#8216;call and response&#8217; type exercise. is anyone out there? maybe. maybe not. who cares? it&#8217;s supposed to be about the process and not the destination.  some people get there, get famous. others don&#8217;t care if they get there or not, they just keep doing it. yes, it&#8217;s kind of sad and maybe laughable to a snarky person that would have taken the time to deconstruct someone&#8217;s 33 &#8216;followers,&#8217; but our society is becoming more and more isolated, and the core word in the phrase imaginary audience is audience. it&#8217;s something.</p>
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		<title>By: Craig</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11872</link>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Genuine Chris Johnson,

You are one of those people who would better &quot;service others&quot; through being stabbed in the face by the fabled but unfortunately ever elusive machine that stabs people over the internet. But then again, you would probably be able to do something impressive and dodge the knife, so it would all be in vain.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Genuine Chris Johnson,</p>
<p>You are one of those people who would better &#8220;service others&#8221; through being stabbed in the face by the fabled but unfortunately ever elusive machine that stabs people over the internet. But then again, you would probably be able to do something impressive and dodge the knife, so it would all be in vain.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11871</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mark,

Why would you ask such a stupid fucking question? I mean, uh, ya -- you are supposed to grow out of that stage exactly when you are 20 years and 2 and a half months old, but only if you pluck 14 hairs out of a donkey&#039;s ass when a full moon is out during the month containing your birthday.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark,</p>
<p>Why would you ask such a stupid fucking question? I mean, uh, ya &#8212; you are supposed to grow out of that stage exactly when you are 20 years and 2 and a half months old, but only if you pluck 14 hairs out of a donkey&#8217;s ass when a full moon is out during the month containing your birthday.</p>
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		<title>By: Brendan Pickering</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11870</link>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Pickering</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reading this reminds me of the first date from hell - the one where you keep wondering if she notices the mustard stain on your right sleeve.

On a more serious note, I think as humans we&#039;re hardwired to think other people care - if they don&#039;t then we&#039;re alone.  Granted some people take this a bit too far!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reading this reminds me of the first date from hell &#8211; the one where you keep wondering if she notices the mustard stain on your right sleeve.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, I think as humans we&#8217;re hardwired to think other people care &#8211; if they don&#8217;t then we&#8217;re alone.  Granted some people take this a bit too far!</p>
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		<title>By: Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11869</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JBower,

Begs the question - will you go fuck yourself?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JBower,</p>
<p>Begs the question &#8211; will you go fuck yourself?</p>
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		<title>By: Genuine Chris Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11868</link>
		<dc:creator>Genuine Chris Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Trying to impress people is where I always lose.  I can do impressive things, but not when I&#039;m trying for the sake of being impressive.  There&#039;s a conflict that I&#039;ve got: one part in the thrall of the mediocre and one part contemptuous.

Focusing on service to others and being truly helpful makes me money.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to impress people is where I always lose.  I can do impressive things, but not when I&#8217;m trying for the sake of being impressive.  There&#8217;s a conflict that I&#8217;ve got: one part in the thrall of the mediocre and one part contemptuous.</p>
<p>Focusing on service to others and being truly helpful makes me money.</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11867</link>
		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another beautiful article!

Thank you!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another beautiful article!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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		<title>By: Still Laughing @ You Two.</title>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-imaginary-audience/#comment-11866</link>
		<dc:creator>Still Laughing @ You Two.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The Imaginary Audience&quot;...is this the title of Max&#039;s new book that no one will read now that everyone on the net knows he&#039;s a fucking bullshit-artist? God, I hope you don&#039;t still suck his cock in hopes of praise.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Imaginary Audience&#8221;&#8230;is this the title of Max&#8217;s new book that no one will read now that everyone on the net knows he&#8217;s a fucking bullshit-artist? God, I hope you don&#8217;t still suck his cock in hopes of praise.</p>
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