So that comparison mode that you talk about though I think is incredibly dangerous in the modern society because you know again

Evolutionarily we're living with 150 other people give or take so you're in competition with what 75ish people and today you're in competition with

Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Mr Beast and like every other person that you're finding on

Instagram and social who have an exorbitant amount of money and status

and shack per size and athletic ability, you know, like there's this very scary treadmill that I think a lot of people have gotten on and they cannot possibly live up to the expectations of these massive figures and so they get into deep

depressions.

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Rebecca, welcome to the Un Mistakable Creative. Thanks much for taking the time to join us. I'm delighted to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. I found out about your book in another book that I was reading written by one of our former guest and you wrote a book called Instinct and I reached out to you because I thought finally somebody is actually backing this up with some real

fucking research, not just new age bullshit and nonsense, which I feel like so many books in this genre

tend to be based on anecdotal evidence, but yours was based on real research.

So I thought I'd start with what is one of my favorite questions given that I see you as a social scientist and that is what social group were you

a part of in high school and what impacted that end up on. social

and that is what social group were you a part of in high school and what impacted that end up having on what you ended up doing with your life in your career.

Oh my gosh, I love that question.

I was kind of a floater, honestly.

I coming out along with everybody, so I was kind of a floater, honestly. I coming out with everybody, so I was not cool enough to be a mainstream jock,

although I was a very accomplished athlete of the basketball player in high school and but I was a nerd too right like I was a 4.0 student and so I kind of floated I was super lucky in that

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