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Garrison Keillor describes the fictional Lake Wobegon as a place where \u2018All the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.\u2019

Psychologists have coined the phrase \u2018The Lake Wobegon Effect\u2019 to describe the way in which humans tend to overestimate their abilities and characteristics against the rest of society.

In short, we all think we\u2019re above average.

But because it is impossible for all of us to be above average, we wind up knocking each other down in what psychologists call \u2018Downward Social Comparison.\u2019

In the first segment of today\u2019s episode, I talk about the harm that all this negativity does to us and how to use the practice of compassion to overcome these unwanted impacts.

In segment two, I discuss how the deepening of self-awareness offers us the ability to see the activity of our minds - thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations - as though we\u2019re watching it all happen on a tv screen.

Even better, it\u2019s like we\u2019re holding the remote control and always have the ability to simply pause and come back to a regulated place.

I hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/zt7BHMm2njU

If you would like to learn more about these practices I talk about, I encourage you to get in touch.

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