Morgan Housel

Or Jane has a beautiful smiling family of cute kids in their photo session without seeing the screams and the tantrums that took place before it kind of thing.

It's just everyone has a very inflated sense of other people.

And I do this too.

I post cute pictures of my kids online.

I don't post tantrums.

I don't post fights.

And so it's like everyone is putting on an act, so to speak, in an innocent way, but in a very real way.

Absolutely.

Now, once in a while, some people I have, I do follow a couple of people who are like, I think they want to post their warts, so to speak.

They want to post the downsides.

It's very refreshing.

People love like the saying misery loves company.

People love hearing that you're not the only one suffering, that other people are going through the fights, the stresses, the anxieties, the doubts that you are as well.

Like it's a very comforting thing to hear.

I remember when you posted that.

I remember being like, good for you, man.

The response that I had as an outsider watching that was not like, oh, look at Shane, this clown.

He's stumbled on stage.

That was the opposite.

The response I had was like, man, good for you because I've had a lot of failures and good to know that I'm not alone in that.