Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

I remember a while back there was this conversational dynamic that I saw happening a lot and not just, well I guess

Reddit is a social media, so like different like social media

conversations and like Reddit conversations where a person would complain

about something in their life, some challenge or problem they were having. And another person would say something

to the effect of, well, you know, count your blessings.

At least it's not as bad as people, you know,

and then they would name something that they would think is worse.

And then another person would come in and defend the original poster by saying something

to the effect of, well, just because people have problems like different problems in different parts of the world

doesn't mean that the problem that the person is experiencing or complaining about isn't

valid and I remember reading every time I read that kind of conversation,

I would think both people are right. How are both people right? How is it how is it that I agree with the the person who said

you know count your blessings at least it's not as bad as XYZ and how is it that I

would agree with the person who said yeah and also that doesn't mean that it

invalidates the experience of the person's challenge that they're complaining

about. And ultimately I came to, well, it is because both of them are accurate and right.

So what is the better perspective to take?

So in this podcast, we want to revisit a model

that we've talked about many times in the past.

We record an entire podcast on it. We referenced it a lot in the

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