Instagram and TikTok show you everyone's highlight reel while you're stuck with your own mistakes and failures. The speaker calls comparison the thief of joy and argues the fix is simple: limit what you let in, focus on what feels real to you.
People have FOMO, fear of missing out. I mean, look at Instagram. All you need to do is go on someone's page. Oh, they're doing this, maybe I should do this. But is that even what you want to be doing? If you look at Instagram as a platform that it is, or TikTok or whatever, people are posting their highlights and you're comparing it to what happens backstage. So all your fuck-ups, shortcomings, every time that it went wrong, that's your reference point. And then this person's putting out their reference point of everything that went right. Now what's wrong is always available, but what's right is also available. You can always make yourself look bad, but you can always make yourself look better by comparison. Comparison is the thief of joy. I want to limit the information that comes in. Yeah, so I can focus on actually what's real for me.
