Chris Duffy

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You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

In today's episode, we're going to switch things up a little bit.

We're going to question some of the assumption behind our title, that we should always be trying to improve ourselves.

Look, becoming thoughtful, kinder, emotionally aware and mature, those seem like clearly good things.

Definitely worth trying to be a better human on those fronts.

But there can be an insidious side to the idea of better.

The idea that we always have to be optimizing and improving ourselves, that we're never just enough.