How can you stop caring what other people think about you?

Question

Do you care what people think about you?

Answer 1

Live your life with a positive attitude! stop thinking about the people...let them think what they want to think!

Answer 2

Well, maturity plays a big part here. As you get older and more mature, you'll realize that you don't need to care what others think of you because YOU know that you're a good person. The best armor against this is confidence, and the foundation of confidence is a strong sense of self-esteem.

The best way to build your self-esteem and confidence is to decide you're going to stop wasting energy thinking and worrying about what others think about you and instead, use that energy to do things for yourself and other people that will help you develop character and the inner knowledge that you're a great person.

Two Things:

1. Are you artistic? Do you garden or sew? Maybe you've always secretly wanted to be an athlete. Maybe you've always wanted to take up archery or fencing--or acting or singing. Find your talents and interests and develop them. When you're rushing off to your guitar or tuba lesson or your judo class or you're in the backyard, working on a painting, you won't have time to think--let alone CARE--about what other people think of you.

2. VOLUNTEER. Be of service to those less fortunate than you and to industries that survive on volunteer work. Your local animal shelter, forest service, regional park, hospital, food bank, Red Cross, homeless shelter, women's shelter, etc., could all use someone like you to assist them in getting daily activities accomplished. This is a big world, and many people have a hard time making it through the day because they don't have enough to eat or because they've been in a hospital for 6 months and are losing hope or because park trails are going unmonitored and people are tramping through endangered plants and leaving trash behind.

When you volunteer to help, your self-worth will grow exponentially, you'll gain valuable business skills that you can add to your college applications and business resumes, and you will experience the peace and happiness that comes with knowing that YOU changed the world and helped make it better. With those kinds of positive feelings swirling around in your heart and in your head, you won't even hear those "other people."

Answer 3

To some degree, most people care about how they appear to others. It becomes a problem, though, when someone cares so much that their identity, their sense of who they are, depends nearly entirely on others' opinions. Without a solid sense of who you are, you'll be at the mercy of every opinion you encounter. You'll feel good if someone compliments you, but descend into emotional hell if you don't get the praise or attention you want from another person.

Professional counseling can focus on creating a firm and integrated sense of self, self-confidence, and the ability to remain emotionally stable in the face of other people's points of view. That's how you learn to care less about what other people think.

Answer 4

It's really not something that you just STOP doing...What you have to do is realize that it's not important what people think about you..Now if you're some type of irresponsible alcoholic or pot head or something then yeah, expect to be judged...But if you're an average person living an average life doing all that you can to be a good or at least decent person, then you shouldn't care about what people think about you. As long as you're living your life to make YOU happy, then that's all that matters...You have to realize that the people on the outside aren't the ones putting food on your table or clothes on your back or paying any of your bills...so who cares what they think???

Answer 5

It's hard to stop. If you are a kid or a teenager, you will find that it gets easier as you get older and become more independent. You should care what people think about your personality and your heart, not what they think about how you look or how you dress.

I do care what other people think about me. I want people to think that I'm independent enough to form my own opinions, intelligent enough to think for myself, mature enough to do the right thing but still do what I want to do, and beautiful enough on the inside to make the outside not count for much.

Answer 6

Why does it matter what someone else thinks of you? They are not living your life. They dont experience your problems or see the world through your eyes. Whether you see it or not, everyone has problems and issues and drama. When you are alone, you are the only person that has to live with you, so be sure to love yourself. Once you are able to love yourself, you wont care what anyone thinks or says about you.

Answer 7

Just ignore them. I don't care what people say about me and I always keep a positive attitude. Next time when people talk about you embarrass them or say "I know I'm hot and you have envy of that. Take care you might have a heart attack if you continue living others people's life! Bye and have a nice day!" and leave smiling at them. I always do that and people don't dare to say anything about me and if they do I say that if they have to say something about me why don't they say it to my beautiful face.

Answer 8

Learn to love yourself, hon. Only then will you really be able to love someone back, for one. It will also help you to realise that other people's views of you really don't matter that much.
I do sometimes care what others think of me, yes. But I try to not live my life around them, rather live for what I believe is best for me, regardless. If I know the truth, what matter if no-one else does?

Answer 9

Sometimes it hurts when other people talk about you, but if you are proud of who you are then don't worry about what others think. Hold your head up and look the other way. All they are doing is making an *** of themselves. It's usually those who lead a miserable life so they try to make others miserable.

Answer 10

yeah i think most people care what other think of them and everyone wants to be liked but it just dosen't happen like that, you cant be liked by every person. Just be yourself and be happy and as long as your not upseting people and hurting them then theyv'e got no reason not to like you! If they don't its there loss and remember there probably jealous theres a saying that people only dislike you because there jealous of you.