Negative distillation is what happens when someone refines themselves in the wrong direction — concentrating their worst traits rather than their best ones. Instead of burning off toxicity and emerging purer, they've doubled down on bitterness, pettiness, or ego until those qualities are all that's left. It's the dark twin of genuine self-improvement: the person who spent years becoming a more ruthless, paranoid, or self-absorbed version of themselves while convinced they were levelling up. Negative distillation is the result of filtering without wisdom.
He used to be kind of self-centred but somewhat redeemable — five years of 'working on himself' later and it's been total negative distillation, honestly.
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