A short YouTube monologue by James Laughlin warning that pretending everything is perfect harms interpersonal connection. The speaker urges ditching the act and being authentic/vulnerable—sharing real struggles (even small wins like going to the gym) invites genuine support, whereas polished posts attract superficial praise and reduce closeness.
You're the one judging yourself, thinking that they actually care that much about you when they're just caring about themselves. And any comments, they're just sort of feeding into what you're trying to do when at the end of the day, like ditching the act is just being real with where you're at which allows for people to help and to support. And imagine the, you know, the post, it's like, oh, successful this and oh, I got an award for this. You look at the comments on that and it's like, oh great, yay, fire this. Instead of saying, hey, this has been a really tough week both personally and professionally and you know, I'm trying to keep myself motivated and it's not, it's not the easiest but I got to the gym gym today. You got it. You can do it. I'm here to help support. There's a whole different vibe of including people when you're not pretending like everything is perfect.
