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Cullinan expectations are wild #personalgrowth #mindset #advice #truth #financialfreedom

@tanukikim
13.0M views2.2M likes2:23ENMar 1, 2026
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What happened to the normal standards since when did everybody start expecting perfection at 20 years old? Social media has completely destroyed people's sense of reality. Now a guy in his 20s is expected to make 10 grand a month, drive a nice car, dress in designer, pay for absolutely everything, have a perfect lifestyle and on top of that, somehow be emotionally perfect. While still being at university, still learning and studying, still building his life from absolute zero, when did all that become normal? Your parents did not expect that from each other. Your grandparents didn't expect that. People used to grow together, they used to start small and build something real over time. Nobody expected a 22-year-old man to be financially established. He wasn't even done studying. And here's the crazy part, these standards don't come from real life. They're coming from edits, TikTok reels and Instagrams. From a highlight of the top 1% of the world pretending to be the average. So if you're a guy and you feel pressured by that, breathe. Don't let the internet make you feel behind. You're not supposed to be that rich at 20. And if you're that great, but you're supposed to be learning, growing, falling, trying and improving and in the end, building. If you want to use the pressure as motivation, that is absolutely great. Let it push your sale but not sink your ship. Let it fuel your ambition that you've got but not destroy your peace, because the moment you start building out of insecurity, you'll build the wrong life. You'll chase milestones that aren't yours. On the moment you get them, they won't make you happy, because they were never your girls in the first place. So do it for your own purpose, for your future, for the life that you want, not for the expectations of people who don't even know you. So don't let social media create your standards. Let your values do that. Everything will come once the work is real.