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Man in the car paradox
<p>So there's this concept in the psychology</p><p> of money by Morgan housel, that I love</p><p> so much and I think about it t all the time. </p><p>It is called the man in the car paradox. So </p><p>imagine you see a guy drive up in a </p><p>Lamborghini and his assumption is like he </p><p>want people to notice him and think like </p><p>wow he is so successful, he is so cool but </p><p>the thing is that when you see somebody </p><p>in a really expensive car you are not </p><p>thinking wow that must be so impressive. </p><p>What you think is imagine if that was me, </p><p>imagine I was the one driving up in the </p><p>fancy car. It is the same thing as a person </p><p>posting a vacation photo who thinks </p><p>people are admiring their life but really </p><p>people are just puturing themselves in the </p><p>photo of their lifw and imagining </p><p>themselves living the same thing. So what </p><p>is really happening is that people aren't </p><p>admiring you for the great things that you </p><p>are showing off. They are just feeling bad </p><p>because they wish they will be admired </p><p>for the things you are showing off but </p><p>nobody is admiring that is the paradox </p><p>here, there's actually no admiration </p><p>happening. </p><p><br/></p><p>Studies show that we actually spend the </p><p>majority of the time in social situations </p><p>thinking about ourselves, how we are </p><p>coming across, how we are measuring up </p><p>to others but the catch is that everyone is </p><p>doing the same thing simultaneously, so </p><p>we are performing for an audience that </p><p>they themselves are too busy performing </p><p>to watch us. </p><p><br/></p><p>The practical implication is basically that </p><p>nobody is thinking about you as much as </p><p>you think they are which is actually very </p><p>liberating. Just buy the car because you </p><p>like the car, do the work because it </p><p>matters to you, live the life that actually </p><p>make sense for you because the audience </p><p>that you imagine you are performing for is </p><p>never really watching anyway</p><p>.</p>
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