Mental wellbeing and human nature: Dr. Bill von Hippel talks succeeding in the modern world
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The Good and the Bad of Social Comparisons
Some of us have a great deal of difficulty turning that off. But the good thing about social comparisons is that we also can use them to make ourselves feel better. So when things are going well, they mostly just make us nosy and jealous of our neighbours - which is bad. And so it resurrects the bad in a nice way, but it also fails to allow to appreciate the good. It squishes us toward the middle.
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