truth18 wrote:Jaqua92 wrote:SmartWentCrazy wrote:
Hah— to be clear, I wish he’d find happiness in basketball. From what I’ve seen, I dont think he’ll ever find it— dude was miserable next to LeBron and miserable with his own team. Some dudes are just wired that way.
He's talented, but he's got a personality not meant for superstardom. He's better off studying sociology lol
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What is a personality suited for stardom?
Do you want him to punch Tatum in the face and go get wasted gambling all night?
Should he pave a new driveway for himself and throw out his back shortening his career for years?
Even dudes like Magic have PR nightmares. And no actual personality.
On court is what matters in this league.
Idk about Kyrie, I doubt he would understand anyof it but this forum should read some Foucault.
An extroverted personality, someone who thrones off attention, someone theatrical etc..Kyrie is an introspective thinker. For people like this, there's an entire internal world just as relevant as the external world. I'm one of them. One of the greatest challenges of people like this is to get these worlds to align. I've been lucky enough to spend some time studying Buddhism, to have years of counseling, and pursuit my masters in counseling/counseling psychology for eventual state licensure. This "alignment" can be challenging, but I have the skills, tools, and insight to grow with them.
A maladaptive way this alignment happens is actually a focus of Gestalt Therapy (which I've mentioned he would benefit from before), some people try to get the external world to change..try to manipulate it in order to meet their internal world in the moment, opposed to allowing them to exist simultaneously. Kyrie does this, and then rationalizes his failures by telling us he wants to grow, and tries to validate himself externally by talking about how he doesn't need validation..but he does, he's seaking it out. He's a sensitive dude who's a bit insecure, easily overwhelmed, and a bit paranoid..but he can present himself by rationalizing it instead being so codependent on others, like KD. But it's still not most healthy way to handle this kind of functionality.
My point is, someone like Kyrie by nature has a more difficult time in front of the bright lights when everything he does is so scrutinized. He's forced to learn on his own, and it's hard to focus on your mental health when you are a pro star athlete. I don't think Kyrie INTENDS to be phony. But he acts like someone who could some day have a mild psychotic break and just become delusional
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