It seems everyone around us is moving through life at exactly the “right” pace: getting engaged, having babies, buying houses, building careers, finding purpose. Meanwhile, we’re left wondering, are we running late to our own lives?
This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson muse on ‘feeling behind’ after rediscovering an article Alice wrote at 25 about comparison culture and the anxiety around reaching success by a certain age, revisiting the question through older (hopefully slightly wiser) eyes. In a conversation about ambition, timelines, and growing up, they explore the social clock and the psychology of comparison, the arbitrary milestones and social expectations we measure ourselves by, and the people who found their way on their own terms.
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The 27 Club: A Brief History, Rolling Stone
Social Clock: Age Norms, Age Constraints, and Adult Socialization by Bernice Neugarten, Joan Moore, John Lowe in University of Chicago Press
Australia's Fertility Taboo, TasIVF Report
A Theory Of Social Comparison Processes by Leon Festinger
Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative?
When Every Day Is A High School Reunion: Social Media Comparisons and Self Esteem's by Claire Midgley, Sabrina Thai, Penelope Lockwood, Chloe Kovacheff, Elizabeth Page-Gould
Dealing With Post-Trail Depression by Annie Mueller, Psychology Today
The Hedonic Treadmill by Dan Pilat and Dr. Sekoul Krastev, Decision Lab
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