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How social comparison sabotages contentment

I watch my neighbors constantly renovating and upgrading and I feel like I'm falling behind even though my house is perfectly fine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External reference points override internal satisfaction, creating artificial inadequacy around objectively sufficient circumstances.

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“Where Are You with How much is enough — the sufficiency question?”

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