Seeking External Validation--LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and more...

External validation—LinkedIn is such a wonderful mirror of our human conditioning (so is facebook, instagram and the long list goes on); we put-up all kinds of profiles seeking external validation; in a way, like little children--where others get to endorse our “skills,” experience, “talents;” where we judge each other based on the blueprint of the society, based on what is desirable and what is not—while some people’s opinions about us matter more than others’… we all eat it up without ever questioning why we need external validation in the first place and who designated the criteria we are judged on and if they are justified or not. This is all understandable however, because regardless of right or wrong, it is so much more comfortable to follow a path that is already carved for everyone to walk on, than to venture out into an authentic new path that no one has walked on before…