My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention.

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Jay Edgar Hoover was furious. He was out of his mind, and he wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is don't compare your actual life and your interior struggles to curated versions of other people's lives.

Many people have struggles of some sort or another, but even if they don't, there is no point

feeling bad about yourself in comparison.

Today's tip was inspired by Anne Lamott, author of the books Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, among many others.

On the occasion of her 61st birthday, she made a list of everything she knew for sure,

and this list ultimately became a TED talk called 12 truths I've learned from life and writing.

One of those truths, she says, is that everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared.

Even the people seem to have it most together.

They are much more like you than you would believe.

So try not to compare your insides to other people's outsides. It will only make you worse than you already are. There is definitely

something to that. Comparing yourself to other people who seem better off is never going to make you happier.

Unfortunately, social media makes it all too easy to compare your inside to other people's outsides.

You know firsthand what your real life is like.

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