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Stop Putting “Toxic” In Front Of Everything To Make It Someone Else’s Problem
Start taking responsibility for your failures
Nowadays, everything you see is toxic.
Toxic Positivity, Toxic Masculinity, Toxic Productivity, and Toxic Lifestyles.
In some cases, this might apply. But in most of them, I think it’s a solution to not take responsibility for your own failure and blame someone or something else.
I’m guilty as well, I use the term toxic productivity a lot because I think it’s a real issue in the modern world — but this also makes me think about why I call out the fact that it’s toxic.
Isn’t it just my problem?
When Did We Start Calling Everything Toxic?
We can only understand the origin of the use of the word “Toxic” if we get a grasp of when it started getting popular to do so.
Between 2014 and 2020 we see a massive increase of the word Toxic in Google Searches.
This might imply some sort of collective awakening regarding personal development and self-help…
