56. If Nobody Could See Your Life — What Would You Actually Want It to Look Like?
Social media has made extraordinary lives look normal.
Someone is always traveling, building a business, transforming their body, moving abroad, becoming the best version of themselves.
And so ordinary starts to feel like failure. But what if an ordinary life is actually a beautiful one?
This episode names one of the most underdiagnosed sources of unhappiness in our generation: the existential pressure to make your entire life remarkable.
Dr. Leon Festinger's social comparison research was built around comparing ourselves to similar others — but what's happening now is something his research…
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