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Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.

Today's clip is from episode 354 of the podcast with Will Store, award-winning journalist

and author of the best-selling book, The Status Game. Will argues that as humans, we're programmed to compare ourselves

to others and to care about how we stack up. And in this clip, we discuss why perfectionism

is becoming a modern epidemic and how we can start to overcome it. In your latest book, The Status Game,

you make the powerful case that

social perfectionism and materialistic goal-seeking

is linked to all kinds of problems,

including depression, anxiety,

eating disorders, self-harm, and suicidal thinking.

What's going on?

Well, you know, as we go through life, we're trying to achieve a level of status,

you know, with other people.

And so we're trying to feel like we're, you know, good enough.

We're trying to feel like we're valuable people.

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