Two words, today: too sensitive. I want to look at them directly, once, and then set them down for good.
You've heard them — maybe from a parent, a partner, a boss, a stranger online. Maybe you've said them about yourself, right before apologizing for something that needed no apology: you're too sensitive.
It sounds like an observation. It isn't. It's a verdict — and it's aimed at the wrong target. It says the problem is how much you feel. It never once asks what you were responding to.
Here's what "too sensitive" actually does. It doesn't lower how much comes in — it can't; that's not how the trait works. It just adds a second problem on top of the first: now you're managing the original feeling, plus the shame of having had it.
So here's the retirement, and I mean it exactly: you are not too sensitive. Your system runs at higher resolution. More comes in, and it takes more to process it. That's design, not deficit — and design is something you can work with.
From here on, in this program, that phrase doesn't get used — not about you, and not by you about yourself. When you catch it, in your own head or someone else's mouth, you'll know exactly what to do with it now: notice it, name what's actually true instead, and let the verdict go without arguing every word of it.
This week's exercise doesn't ask you to win an argument with the phrase. It asks you to catch it — every time, from anyone, including you — and just watch how often it shows up. Most people are surprised by the count. That count, and whether it moves, becomes one of the numbers your program tracks all the way to graduation.