Comparing Their Storefront to Your Behind-the-Scenes

Steven Bartlett exposes the optical illusion destroying your self-worth: you're measuring your behind-the-scenes against everyone else's highlight reel. Drawing on Leon Festinger's 1954 social comparison theory and Melissa Hunt's University of Pennsylvania experiment, he reveals how a compass calibrated for villages now points at billions of curated moments. The thirty-minute dosing protocol and the inspiration test offer concrete repairs for a scale rigged against you from the start.

You'll learn:

- Why the only fair competitor is yesterday's you

- How tracking usage alone reduces anxiety measurably

- The one-step-ahead rule for choosing role models