Selfie
by Will Storr · first published 2017
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We live in an age of perfectionism. Every day, we're bombarded with the beautiful, successful, slim, socially-conscious and extroverted individual that our culture has decided is the perfect self. We see this person constantly in shop windows, in newspapers, on the television, at the movies and all over our social media. We berate ourselves when we don't match up to them--when we're too fat, too old, too poor, or too sad. This cycle can be extremely bad for us. In recent years, psychologists have even begun to think that many people take their own lives because of the impossible standards that
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Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us I read this last year and IMO it's really good material. Would appreciate if you suggest me a book too. Regards. https://www.amazon.com/Selfie-Became-Self-Obsessed-What-Doin...
on “Ask HN: What are the best non-fiction books?” ↗I think you’d enjoy reading Selfie by William Storr. It talks a lot about the left brain observer and various experiments that have observed what you’re talking about.
on “Not everyone should meditate” ↗This is not a news article, but an excerpt from an upcoming book: > Adapted from Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed And What It’s Doing To Us by Will Storr, published by Picador on 15 June... (Edit: note the author's begging the question in the subtitle.)
on “The great self-esteem con” ↗