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468: The secret sauce of happiness | Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, M.D.
The mindbodygreen Podcast
Is Technology and Social Media Affecting Our Happiness?
There's a lot more research that we need to do about how social media affects us. But there are some findings that might be useful here. It seems that when we use social media actively to connect with people, that that often makes us feel better and enhances our well-being. And when we used social media passively, like scrolling through somebody else's Instagram feed, that thatoften makes us compare ourselves to others. So active connection online versus passive consumption. Why is comparison so dangerous? One of my Zen teachers told me once: We're always comparing our insides to other people's outsides.
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