There's a reason that teenagers in particular are prone to the feverish pursuit of valuation via social media. Prinstein says it's because the wide variety of regions in the brain that seek and deliver social rewards, including the part of the striatum called the nucleus accumbens, become supercharg…
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Social media is like kerosene poured on the flame of social comparison, dramatically increasing the information about people that we're exposed to and forcing our minds to assess.
People are most likely to share peak experiences and flattering news about themselves—what University of Houston psychologist Mai-Ly Nguyen Steers calls "everyone else's highlights reel"—and tech companies, furthermore, use algorithms to prioritize that very information in social media feeds. The na…
Stop comparing yourself to others. You are not in competition with anyone other than yourself. Your destination is different.
Don’t be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else’s problems were, they’d be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.
She is boundless. She is perfect. She is beautiful. I pale in comparison.
I am not beautiful. I am not lovely. I am not pretty. I am not fair. I am as radiant as the sun.
Do you like to draw with crayons? I'm not very good at it. But it doesn't matter. It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I would't have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be…
Support yourself. Avoid becoming the villain in your own story.
Other people’s happiness are not units of measurement for yours. Respect the pace of your growth.
Your 20s are hard. Going through a big transition, trying to get a job while figuring out what you’re truly passionate about, losing friends and making them, paying off student loans and still trying to afford the experiences that supposedly make your 20s ‘the best time of your life’ — it’s hard. Co…