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1792: The Secrets of Happy People With Arthur C. Brooks

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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Is Social Comparison the Thief of Joy?

When you compare yourself to other people, there's nothing good can come of that. The only way to do that is to surround yourself with people that you know in person and whom you admire. When i surround myself with people who have virtue, not, you know, somebody who's got just like better abs, that's fine. But everything else is bad for your happiness. It's bad for your social life. It creates fear. And all o this leads to loneliness, leads to depression, and it's all in this brew of fear that we see as a societyw with social media. I mean, from a fitness perspective, the thing that i notice the lot with with body image

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