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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
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GenYChron Ep. 0002 – Millennials talking about beer, cannabis and liver pâté
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:49 — 15.6MB)
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Listen to our experiences about moving to 4 different cities across the globe in 4 years. We share with you our nomad-like strategy for moving like a millennial. We also talk about a few random but hotly debated topics: marriage stats, controlled substances and vegetarianism. You may also learn something new about the “Imperial City”, “Athens on the Isar River”, “Haligonia” and the “Gateway to the World”. Read More
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GenYChron Ep. 0001 – Infantilized youth, data privacy and gut bacteria
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We’re excited to welcome you to our first podcast episode. Today we discuss a wide range of nagging social issues. We make a few observations about independent kids in Germany vs. kids in Canada, your online freedom and personal privacy, low-sugar diets, gut bacteria, the supermarket scene in Germany and yes… goose fat. Read More
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GenYChron Ep. 0015 – Service culture wars: Germany and Austria vs. Canada
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On this week’s show, listen to us reminisce about our eyebrow-raising experiences with servers and cashiers in Germany, Austria and Canada. We compare two different service cultures and two different perspectives to see which one stands supreme. Prepare yourself for a mildly heated discussion!
