Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Any framing that implies a game of human top trumps can be unsettling and problematic. In life there is no winner – there are a million different categories and we are each running our own race, thus resorting to a game of ‘top trumps’ is a fruitless exercise. The key is not to make a value judgement of that specific person as an individual but rather to consider the interaction effect of the two of us and how that would work.

Thanks to Cliff twitter.com/cliffweitzman and Valentin twitter.com/valentin_pd for joining us on this one :)

This clip has been taken from Episode 68 of Not Overthinking - notoverthinking.com/episodes/friendships-and-relationships-ft-valentin-and-cliff.

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