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We Keep Comparing Our Life With Others

We Keep Comparing Our Life With Others

More often than not, we compare ourselves with others, based on what society says, how other people are living, and what the majority thinks of as success.

There is no need to spend the best hours of our best days just comparing our success with other people.

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Everyone Is Struggling

We assume other people have their life taken care of in all aspects, but the truth is that everyone is struggling. Some have job issues, financial, or relationship issues. Just having a (projected) happy face does not mean that everything is hunky-dory with others.

Even billionair...

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Run Your Own Race

You need to have a personal definition of success based on your own values, not what is defined by society, neighbours or even your family.

Just staying in your lane will relax you and you can then function instinctively without any comparisons, living your own life to the...

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Comparing our success with other's success is the biggest myth

Comparing our success with other's success is the biggest myth

When we see a LinkedIn post about somebody joining a big company we feel sad that we are still struggling to get a good job.

Here we are comparing our success with others. 

This is the biggest myth about success.

We should always compare our past with the current and see ho...

How social media affects our expectations

Social media is a great contributor as to why our expectations to ourselves and towards other people is damaging.

We often tend to compare ourselves with other people online regardless of who they may be. We tend to forget that we compare our worst moments to somebody else's best.

Success Is Relative To Others

Just like our salary is valued in a skewed way (people would rather have a 5% increase if their colleagues get 0% than a 20% increase if their colleagues get 30%), our career self-evaluations are largely based on what we think of others’ level of success.

When people tell you that you ...

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