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“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing good comes from comparison. Not good can come from comparison, and even those things that are good turn sour by that nasty little habit that’s become far too common today.
It’s easy to compare. We know far more people than we used to (without truly knowing them at all). We have visual access to snapshots of their lives that they want us to see, without the visuals that they do not want to show.
There are so many paths in life that yield so many different results, give varying benefits, and provide results at different times in life that comparing is even more futile than it once was.
The young fella who has a great business idea early in his life and makes a buttload of money has a far different path than the fella who works for a company, learns the ins-and-outs of the industry, finally creates his own business, and makes a buttload of money later in life, regardless of if they both earn the same amount in their lifetime.
The only certainty is that comparison would rob the guy who finds success later in life of the energy, motivation, happiness, and perspective that would warrant that eventual success.
Comparison Adds Worry, Fear, And Stress
When you’re comparing yourself to another person, you never have the full story, for one, but you’re also going to look down on yourself if they’ve in some way done more than you or earned more than you. You’re going to miss a lot of what’s going on because you’re not looking at your own life but at a piece or part of someone else’s.
You’ll fear that you’re not on the right path. You’ll get off the path before you should, having to start from scratch in an entirely new endeavor. The fella who you were comparing yourself to is ignorant of this comparison, he’s just working. He’ll stay on his path, and persistence and consistency in a focused manner is far better than massive amounts of work done in constantly differing focuses.
You’re going to win in life if you stay the course, more than you would if you constantly jump ship, into another field.
If you compare you’re also going to worry that you’re not doing enough, doing the right things, or you’ll create some new thing to worry about that really doesn’t need to be worried about.
You’re going to be consumed by unnecessary stress. The good stress is the kind that we need for growth, the bad kind is worry.
It’s futile and destructive to compare your path, life, journey, business, home, land, truck, income, and so on, to someone else’s. It’s a cancerous thought-process that eats away at the host.
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