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Dr Emma Hepburn (Replay): How To Have A Happy Brain

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How Can a Downward Comparison Be Helpful?

In the book, there are some real tangible tips on how to step away from our phones. And I think that's stuff we need more of because I do feel like a lot of people are quite lost in the addictive nature of it. But one thing I hadn't seen before in any other books or anything is you paint this picture as well of comparison upwards and downwards. How we compare ourselves upwards all the time to people who we think have a better life than us. So what I found really interesting is what you're talking about as well with comparison downwards in terms of feeling like, oh my God, there's so much going on in the world. Both can be unhelpful or

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