Show summary
We continue our 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos miniseries, and this week we discuss the harm in excessive self-critical social media comparisons and the powerful concept of incremental self-improvement (RULE 4 / Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today).

Show notes
1:59 - Comparing yourself to others is a losing game; your inner critic always wins

5:15 - Many social media platforms can drive internal criticism to unhealthy levels

6:30 - Social media consumption is harming the next generation (The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)

8:01 - Envy blinds you from seeing what you really need in your life

9:30 - The Monkey Business Illusion (YouTube viral video)

11:02 - Incrementally improve yourself one day at a time--aim low

14:55 - Don’t be a tyrant or a slave--negotiate with yourself

21:11 - Darth Sidious, the postmodernist (YouTube clip)

22:45 - The new #10yearchallenge