Happiness Formula
"Happiness is reality minus expectations"
- Elon Musk
There is probably a lot of truth to this. Elon said this in a discussion about social media and Instagram in particular.
Social media and comparison can alter our expectations to the point where people have taken their own lives. When we base our expectations for life based on what people are posting and saying online, it almost always makes us feel worse, not better.
I personally like social media, but we have to be very aware of the dangers of it, and teach the dangers to young people and children, both who are using social media younger and younger.
Don't set your expectations based on what you see online and on social media. You are seeing something that is most likely not a full reality. It's a sanitized or filtered version of reality.
Set your expectations based on your own abilities, not others.
- Elon Musk
There is probably a lot of truth to this. Elon said this in a discussion about social media and Instagram in particular.
Social media and comparison can alter our expectations to the point where people have taken their own lives. When we base our expectations for life based on what people are posting and saying online, it almost always makes us feel worse, not better.
I personally like social media, but we have to be very aware of the dangers of it, and teach the dangers to young people and children, both who are using social media younger and younger.
Don't set your expectations based on what you see online and on social media. You are seeing something that is most likely not a full reality. It's a sanitized or filtered version of reality.
Set your expectations based on your own abilities, not others.
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