🦄 Startups & VC Apr 15, 2026 · Christian Kelly

Psychology says the people who seem impossible to offend aren’t thick-skinned. They decided long ago that showing hurt gives others a map they haven’t earned, so they absorb the wound and reclassify it as information

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Psychology says the people who seem impossible to offend aren’t thick-skinned. They decided long ago that showing hurt gives others a map they haven’t earned, so they absorb the wound and reclassify it as information
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A substantial body of research in emotion regulation (dating back to Gross’s process model in the late 1990s and refined considerably since) draws a distinction between two broad strategies: expressive suppression, in which an individual inhibits the outward display of emotion after it has already been generated, and cognitive reappraisal, in which the emotional stimulus is reinterpreted before the full affective response takes hold. The popular assumption about people who appear impossibl

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