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Most of us carry a timeline we never actually agreed to — a set of ages and milestones absorbed from family, school, and a phone full of other people's highlight reels. When life doesn't match that schedule, it's easy to feel behind, even when nothing is actually wrong.
This episode looks at where that feeling comes from, including Leon Festinger's social comparison research and a 2018 meta-analysis on who we tend to compare ourselves to and why it stings. It also looks at the real difference between an honest gap and a verdict you've quietly talked yourself into.
By the end, you'll have a clearer question to ask than "am I behind" — namely, behind what, and whose number is it anyway.
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