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What does it mean too guarded & hard on yourself?
Somwone told me that they thought that I was too guarded and not to be too hard on myself. What does that mean?
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Well heres what guarded means:
guarded /an adjective
cautious and having possible reservations.
"he has given a guarded welcome to the idea"
synonyms: cautious, careful, circumspect, wary, chary, on one's guard, reluctant, reticent, noncommittal, restrained, reserved;
As you can see, theres nothing wrong with being guarded to some extent. That way you don't end up falling immediately for the sob story of a scam artist trying to get something from you.
However to be too guarded, the extreme version of all this would mean you keep yourself cut off from others and make it really hard for them to get to know you or for yourself to learn to trust them.
Being too hard on yourself, may be how they describe what they see or think they see in your behaviour, such as having too high expectation of yourself and getting upset when you cant or fail to uphold your own impossible standards. Its usually something like that, a perfectionist or something closely the same.
The opposite would be some one who is an open book, nothing to hide, easy to get to know, trusting to a limit at first but as trust is earned they will trust the right people fully, but if too trusting and too unguarded, they are then considered gullible, meaning unwary, unsuspecting, impressionable.
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