Welcome to the CLS experience. I'm your host, Craig Siegel. I'm a born and raised New Yorker

who achieved success with multiple businesses, but I crave something deeper. So I dedicated

myself to personal growth and transformation by revamping my mindset.

I went from being unable to run a mile to conquering four marathons the following year.

Now, I want to help others manufacture big breakthroughs of their own.

Before I reinvented myself, guys, just being vulnerable right now.

I was following the footsteps of other people's expectations, and I was totally miserable

because I was out of alignment.

And I wasn't really being authentic to myself.

Right.

And I remember reading specifically in the 1950s, a social psychologist named, I think his name is Leon Fessinger or something like that. Don't call me on that.

He developed something called social comparison theory.

And the idea behind it was in essence that humans look to others in comparison to develop an identity.

And guys, let's go a little deeper.

This is usually the number one thing that derails us, right?

And so human beings are restrictively wired for connection,

but we're comparing ourselves to those around us,

and it helps us to form attachments and acceptance. But now fast forward after that, 70-something

years later, to social media. And what was once a natural impulse to connect is now a full-blown

mental health crisis, guys. And so social comparison is just one example of this.

But if we could just put down the phone, step away from the desk, right?

If we could just disconnect from it all, the judgment, the looking for the codependency on the

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