Nobody Else Has Their iSht Together Either. You’re Doing Just Fine.
After years of working with hundreds of storytellers, I figured out something essential:
The ways you feel like you fall short? That feeling you have that everyone else has their iSht together, and only you don’t?
You’re not alone.
In fact, E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y feels that way.
Below (video and transcription) is my World Domination Summit mainstage (8 min) talk that goes into this, which is the reason behind why I do all the work I do.
It’s my attempt to counteract the epidemic we’re facing in our society, to give people a space to feel like they’re not alone in secretly feeling like a bit of a failure almost all of the time, and to DEFEAT EVIL.
Also, I tell a funny story about a weird thing on my face. Want to hear it?…
How to Combat Facebook Envy (and Save Lives)
We all walk around, all day every day, thinking that everyone else has their sh-t together.
We all think that everyone else has a normal background, and normal parents, and a normal, successful career and successful relationships.
Then we get on Facebook and it compounds it. “This person’s getting married!” “That person has a happy family with kids!” “this person doesn’t have kids and so they went on vacation to Costa Rica!” “That person’s making six figures in her business!” – and it just COMPOUNDS that feeling of, “Everyone else has their sh-t together but me”.
That feeling is shame. And what shame does, is builds this metal fortress around you, cutting you off from everyone else.
But then, someone…
