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Compensatory behavior is, well, everything

All about closing that gap between "who you really are" and "who you want to be seen as," which has implications at work and on social media.

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Ted Bauer
Feb 17, 2017
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Ever heard of compensatory behavior? It's not a super hard concept. Basically, there's a self we want to believe (a version of ourselves) and a self we actually put out. This applies to relationships, to work, to really pretty much anything. Social media changed the damn game on all of this too. Facebook is the big fish in that world, of course -- and F…

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