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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. 0014 – Emotional maturity, ageism and Millennial wisdom
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:36 — 11.3MB)
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This week on the Gen Y Chronicles podcast, Jasmin and I tackle some complex topics that affect Gen Y. Listen to our personal experiences and stories about the age perception gap between North America and Europe, and our opinions about the evolution of emotional maturity in Millennials.
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GenYChron Ep. 0003 – The sensitivity epidemic in the Western world
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On this podcast episode we explore what’s causing the sensitivity epidemic: political correctness run amok, micro aggressions, helicopter parenting, trigger warnings, Scent Free Around Me, censorship at universities, safe spaces, etc. We live in a society where we have to constantly walk on egg shells or risk being labelled a social pariah. Let’s dive deep into the root causes and get to the bottom of it (or at least try to grasp the “what” and the “why”). Read More
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GenYChron Ep. 0004 – Free Yale courses, free Internet and practising French with a chatbot
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In this week’s podcast episode we dive into a treasure trove of free knowledge. Did you know you can take free courses at Yale on YouTube? Did you know you can access the Internet for free? The Internet is a paradise of human knowledge, where we can learn French by speaking with chatbots and debunk rumours about Chinese spyware in mobile phones. All this and more, for free, in this week’s episode from the Gen Y Chronicles.
