https://twitter.com/ChrisWillx/status/1684595522370260992?s=20
I watched a video where Charlie Munger shares an amazing insight.
“Greed isn’t what drives the world, instead it’s envy.
Our lives are objectively the best humanity has ever had yet complaining & dissatisfaction is as high as ever.”
Humans don’t want their lives to just be better, they want them to be better than their neighbours.
And their parents.
And the people they see on social media.
In this way, a highly connected life is influencing your expectations and envy through comparison.
Tracking your status in the local-tribe hierarchy was incredibly important ancestrally, unfortunately we haven’t learned how to knock that switch off now that we’re connected to 7 billion other people’s lives on the internet.
If Theodore Roosevelt was right and comparison is indeed the thief of joy, then a world in which we can compare more will commensurately be one with less happiness.
Some solutions:
Reduce down how many people you follow on social media (since limiting myself to 100 on Twitter 4 years ago, my experience has been blissful).
Spend more time offline.
Get really serious about working out your life’s values and take pride in them.
