This therapist had some interesting methods, most of which I think did me a ton of good. We talked a lot about the fallacies of "motivation" and "discipline", which are both just carrot-sticks people use to beat themselves up for not doing things they don't _really_ want to do, but wish they did.

We talked a lot about how literally no one on earth is capable of seeing an understanding your flaws as well as you, but also most humans on earth are infinitely less interested. The lens you view yourself with is totally unrelated to the lens with which the rest of the world sees you; you'll drive yourself insane if you think you and the world interpret you the same.

The point is, I think he did a phenomenal job at blasting my self deprecating brain into reality, but his initial spin of "Stop treating yourself like you're an idiot, because you're not and I can prove it" was just a slight misstep.