Psychology
Watch This If You Feel Behind in Life
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Where the 'you should have it all figured out by 25' timeline came from, why scrolling makes us feel behind, the real people and research that show success runs on many different clocks, and five simple ways to measure your life by your own clock.
Key takeaways
- The 'right age' timeline is a social clock people made, not a law of nature. In a 1965 US study, 8 to 9 in 10 middle-class adults agreed a man should marry between 20 and 25.
- Feeds show everyone's biggest moments, so you compare your behind-the-scenes with their highlight reel, and the goalpost keeps moving.
- Many people bloomed late: Colonel Sanders sold his first franchise at 62, Julia Child's first book came out at 49, and the founders of the fastest-growing US startups were about 45 on average.
- At 27 you have used only about 5 of 40-plus working years, and early is not always better.
- Compare yourself with last year's you, write your own definition of a good life, take small steps for a long time, curate your feed, and run a one-year experiment.
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Sources
Original from: Cypher original
Festinger (1954), A theory of social comparison processes, Human Relations
Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier (2007): the arrival fallacy
Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (2012)
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