160: Why Does Self-Help Make You Feel Terrible? | Deep Dive
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Myth of Perfectionism
I don't want Instagram to be my product. As a creator, it's a massive time suck. I post funny things on there. I give behind the scenes looks at the show. The human mind will always exist in this state of incompleteness. That is the design of the human brain. If it weren't feeling incomplete, it wouldn't go out and search for food and shelter or look for adventure. But that built-in mechanism of lack is what makes us susceptible to self-help experts who want to exploit that lack. We don't have to fix that. It will never be fixed completely. we just need to notice that it's there and say, oh, yeah
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