388: Overcoming success addiction & why you should have a reverse bucket list | Social scientist Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.
The mindbodygreen Podcast
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Social Comparison Isn't Evolved
Social comparison is a way that we will assess fitness ancient times. It's not enough to have enough buffalo jerkey and flints in your troglodite cave. You need to have more than the next guy so that you can get mates. We post fake versions of ourselves, and we consume fake versions of other people while we live our humdrol lives. And that social comparison is incredibly hard on our mental health.
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