The Importance of Being Different

There's a lot of judgment on everything from men's height to phrases like dad bod. We often see this idea of people overcompensating in some way with really bulking up at the gym. The hope with lots of these things is that with the changes that we make, which are very physical, is I want to feel differently about myself. But as a psychologist, what I guess I notice is that often people go through all those changes and then they are disappointed because they do feel the same.

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