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205. Why Good Photos Make Us Feel Bad

We Can Do Hard Things

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The Importance of Being Self-Esteemed

I think there's a more practical element to it too and people should go back and listen to why are there no pictures of us. Scarcity creates emergency level emotional response. A picture is about being seen. Yes. And like this idea that we have to change ourselves, change our children, dress up, look different than we are all to ourselves. That means we are never really being seen. So in an extreme way, if someone takes a picture of me and I have spent, you know, three hours in a makeup chair and someone has changed my hair and then probably done some editing afterwards. There's no part of me that feels like that's, I don't feel that compliment

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