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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2025 · 8 MIN

Social Media's Biggest Lie: Comparing Your Chapter 1 to Everyone's Chapter 20

from The Unbroken Protocol · host Abraham Spring

You finish a solid workout, feel good, then open Instagram. Suddenly you're not good enough anymore.Here's what's actually happening: social media is hijacking your survival mechanisms. Every scroll triggers fight-or-flight. Every follower count registers as lost territory. Every like comparison activates your threat response.You've stopped seeing humans. You're seeing metrics.In this episode, I expose the dark psychology:How platforms weaponise your threat detection systemWhy you've turned people into numbers instead of humansThe hyper-competitive hellscape disconnecting you from your own experienceHow to break free with Context Check, Humanity Check, and Comparison CurfewThe question that changes everything: Am I more numbers-driven or feeling-driven?If you can't celebrate your wins without comparing them to others, if other people's success feels like your loss, if you see metrics instead of humans—you've been caught by the matrix game.Stop performing for algorithms. Start being human again.Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performancewww.unbrokenclub.com | @unbrokentriathlonclub

You finish a solid workout, feel good, then open Instagram. Suddenly you're not good enough anymore. Here's what's actually happening: social media is hijacking your survival mechanisms. Every scroll triggers fight-or-flight. Every follower count registers as lost territory. Every like comparison activates your threat response. You've stopped seeing humans. You're seeing metrics. In this episode, I expose the dark psychology: How platforms weaponise your threat detection systemWhy you've turn...

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