The 'deadly sin' that can make you more successful - BBC REEL

In the Divine Comedy, Dante goes down the circles of Hell meeting the world’s most illustrious sinners. 700 years after his death, this series explores the contemporary meaning of the seven cardinal sins.
In this episode we explore envy in the age of social media. At a time when we are constantly surrounded by everyone else's seemingly perfect lives, are we becoming more envious than ever before? If so, could we actually be using this envy to our advantage?
Video by Dan John
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[@niiico2351]

Thing is, social media is not “social” 90% of the time. We just consume content, but when there is some interaction with people close to us. It can be really fulfilling

[@tea-chip-cookies]

Thankyou for yours and everyone else's comments in this section. It helps me out things into perspective and not feel left out with others wealth and fun that they showcase online

[@wadafik]

I'm avoiding social media like a plague because I admit I'm always envious of my friends. But the irony is even without social media, I'm still exposed to all sorts of displays that made me feel envious. So there really no escape to it but to just embrace the feeling and do self-reflections.

[@9snaga]

As much as I appreciate the conclusions on how to tame and utilise envy in a more distilled and day to day manner. In the social media context it is completely out of control and manipulating our fundamental brain function and gaming these systems. These systems are specifically designed to incite and manipulate people. Social media envy is like saying the human body needs sugar so drinking soda can be useful.

[@jamesbuckley6875]

Well said!

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Great comment and what KZbin has done to itself is cringeworthy! Communist social media. Twisted.

[@boxy3087]

I probably agree 50% on this. They should include people who’s not using social media and how they manage their lives. Are they still goal oriented? How would they view themselves to others, etc.

[@maggieadams8600]

"Riches have made more covetous men than covetousness hath made men rich." Thomas Fuller "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." Plato "Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." Epictetus

[@henryfin2649]

To avoid envy Dont share your every day life. When people ask how r u ? Or what your doing nowadays. Just say eat , sleep , work repeat. Done no more people envy.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Social media has totally perverted the individuals' take on themselves presented to the world.

[@Siyamthanda123]

I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@tea-chip-cookies]

I'm 34 and have been a part time carer for my mother since I was a teen. Since lockdown it has now hit me that I missed out on having fun in life that other people online seem to have. I've never felt jealous before but now I do mixed with sadness because of my low financial status compared to those who go on holiday to Dubai etc.. I don't know if a social media break will help at all

[@honeybunch5765]

Well I think magazine were the forerunners to all this. They have and still do feature only glamour and perfect looking people that they have been airbrushing for decades. Even going back to the time portraits were only painted, even then painters were commissioned to paint the model beautiful/perfect and not realistic. Social media is only the modern version.

[@gnir81]

Not everyone was looking at paintings and magazines. But social media now that's got every one hooked. Algorithms deciding everyone's day

[@Edwinbraun20]

Insightful story

[@ericyours10]

Thank you

[@LuisMoreno-qu4mx]

I don’t envy I get inspired and happy for everyone I been like that for over 4 yrs. Plus im reaching my goals n notoriety so I wish everyone success in anything they do..

[@bti4232]

interesting documentary, but i just watch all social content without interacting... my first time writting a comment here on yt (if yt is also social media?)

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

That is why I stick to KZbin for news and documentaries ONLY. I am not on social media. I find everything else out there (on other social media platforms), boring and a waste of time. Who has time to look at another's lunch or snack.

[@X_x_kingfisher_x_X]

what is success? is it some thing that makes me happy? or, is it something that makes me acceptable by people i don't even care? does it make my food taste better? is my life about painting a false image about my self? can my success make me free from any and every morbidity i am destined to?? if not why worry so much after i just make sure of my just bread and just butter?

[@neelroy2918]

so, this story has two assumptions: 1. Social Media is normal mandatory part of our lives. There is nothing wrong with that. 2. We are *capable* of dealing with emotions on such scale - social media has been around for 10 years. While we were evolving for last at least one million. Never ever in that time we had to deal with more than few 10s to at most couple of 100s of people. Now, we potentially exposed to thousands on daily basis. Even if every picture they take were the first picture and completely honest, we are assuming evolution has prepared us for that kind of volume of emotions. Nope. It hasn't.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

@ Neel Roy Social media makes a perversity of what are normal emotions. Behind closed doors can people reach superstar status. The media itself controls the sway and tittalates, or not, self pride - achievement or the downplay. It perverts the norm.

[@neelroy2918]

@@LIZZIE-lizzie well put. I usually get more sad when I find explanation stays superficial not because of lack of information but maybe effort which is what this video did.

[@heatherhill6051]

I agree with you. We have not yet evolved to deal with social media in a healthy way.

[@w.d.g.]

Envy. Yes.

[@juice_lime5114]

Everything is very true here. It depends on how "envy" is used. Its keeping eyes open on the right perspective, and accepting that view the correct way.

[@Bergamot88]

Delete your social medias.

[@theweatherisaokay4964]

I only checking certain stuff on social media, food, gadgets, knitting patterns and so on. I don't or scroll on people or happening. But I love news.

[@PPitambarP]

👍

[@admirald2680]

Cobham Wood - I live near there! 😀

[@AllIsWellaus]

At best I've thought lucky thing but I certainly wouldn't sabotage their happiness. I would describe that person who would as a monster. So no, in its absolute state I don't get envious

[@Khatru39]

Envy can NEVER be good for anyone! Be happy with who you are, and what you’ve got! I think envy has its basis in being worried about what other people think of us! We have the desire to look successful, even if we are not, the desire to look prosperous, even when we are not, and look beautiful or handsome to the ridiculous extent that we spend money to change how we look! Ironically, we then lose our money, prosperity and become UNSUCCESSFUL! God says “Do not covet (desire, want) your neighbours ox, wife” etc., etc. Banks encourage this (or did) I remember in the 80’s going to the bank and seeing a big poster of an expensive car on a mountainous road, on a hairpin bend, and the poster said “why wait? Have that holiday, or car now”. 😳 The expression “Keeping up with the Jones’s” springs to mind! 🙏🙏🙏

[@benjaminli21]

so... spend more time on social media, you suggest?

[@aquamarine7705]

It must be shut down

[@samihakhondoker2456]

just put your phone down and stop scrolling

[@samihakhondoker2456]

simple

[@angelinathedrifter]

😂😂 well any1 can be a super model in social media 💪 what is 'Photoshop ' for..😎 or Happiest pics' wit sad lives...tis is thee world we living in today 😔

[@saberlivre]

I think the 'benign' envy you talk about is really just competition, FOMO, and the human tendency to monitor each other to see if they're measuring up. It doesn't sound healthy to me.

[@glukglukglukgluk9994]

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[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

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[@TagusMan]

More like the Age of Stupid.

[@vichu000]

What nonsense..