[sharno]

It doesn't just stop at the successful startup stories. It's the same style of stories we face in products successful stories, job offers and love stories. examples:

REGAINE (hair loss treatment) only works for some people, not everyone and if you use it consistently twice a day for the rest of your life.

A job at Google/Facebook/haskell job requires you to study day and night for algorithms/functional programming/implement a lot of random programs to get a hold of all of that.

This couple is in love for 50 years, and they ignore how they had lots of fights and had to have lots of compromises from each of them, with a lot of discipline to show care for each other to maintain this love over the years.

These folks got amazing new houses/entered StanfordU because they worked non stop for the past few years while not spending on other luxury items or they will work tirelessly for the rest of their live to pay the debt.

Life is a grind

[mmsimanga]

Paraphrasing a quote on social media I once heard, "People forget social media is like a highlights reel. It doesn't show the full game"

[nikanj]

Social media makes us depressed, because it makes us compare our behind-the-scenes blooper reel to their highlights of the season reel.

[lemonberry]

I'm a fan of similar, but cheesier, saying, "never compare your inside to someone else's outside"