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The Pressure of External Expectations
A previous guest on this podcast called Mo Gaudet said, we're unhappy when our expectations of how we think life is supposed to be going are unmet. In that there's something very sort of linked to what you just said there, which is we have this external expectation set by Instagram or whatever by people like us. If someone wants to be admired, they think, well, I need to be like Alex, right? And then I could be working in a shop actually objectively, like subjectively having a great time in the shop. But I look up at Alex and go, my life sucks Right.