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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right, welcome to episode 795.

Hello, my friend.

Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I've been thinking a lot about thinking lately

in that thinking about how we struggle to think objectively about our lives. And I think this is,

this is the source of so much frustration and uncertainty

and anxiousness is this reason. We struggle to think objectively about life. And this is important

because I think we have this assumption baked into our default judgment of ourselves and the

world that it's the assumption that we see things

as they are. We see things as they are right in front of us and we see things clearly. We think

that our judgments about ourselves, about success, about relationships, about timing, about progress,

we think that they are grounded in objective reality. But the real reality

is that they are not. We like to think we are measuring our lives against a good and fixed

and objective standard. But the reality always is we're measuring our lives, any aspect of our lives,

against whoever or whatever happens to be standing next to us. And this is the insight that,

certainly I was inspired by Dr. Lori Santos, who I spoke on a panel with at South By with,

but her enormous work here basically says

this. It says that we do not evaluate our lives objectively. We evaluate our lives relatively.

We don't evaluate our lives objectively. We evaluate our lives objectively. We evaluate our lives

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