The digital landscape of social media has made the fear of other people's opinions more acute and challenging to manage than in the past.

“it's also a very you know kind of tricky Town Square that we all inhabit where being ostracized from the village kind of does feel real like you say the wrong thing and then suddenly there's a you know cascading set of consequences that can actually spill out into the real world and affect you in in”

The fear of what other people think acts as the primary constraint on human potential and needs to be addressed through internal work.

“the single greatest constrictor of human potential is fear of other people's opinions”