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Endless Instagram highlight reels can make normal days feel like failure; which psychological bias mainly tricks us into thinking everyone else’s life is objectively better than ours?

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Endless Instagram highlight reels can make normal days feel like failure; which psychological bias mainly tricks us into thinking everyone else’s life is objectively better than ours?

Endless Instagram highlight reels can make normal days feel like failure; which psychological bias mainly tricks us into thinking everyone else’s life is objectively better than ours?
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