These categories of thinking are a waste of time and energy on feelings and thoughts that could simply not exist at all.
In nature, animals don’t question themselves. If cheetahs don’t get food, they don’t think that something is wrong with them. On the contrary, the hungrier they get, the more their attention focuses on solving the task – finding food.
In nature, animals don’t question themselves. If cheetahs don’t get food, they don’t think that something is wrong with them. On the contrary, the hungrier they get, the more their attention focuses on solving the task – finding food.
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All people are different from birth – how can we compare that?
Besides, society distorted some people’s perception more in the past, and others’ less. So some people are forced to spend far more time and energy working through self-sabotage, living through difficult emotions, stress, attempts to understand themselves, etc. In other words, the same results will cost different people different amounts of effort.
Comparing yourself with someone else, or your results with someone else’s, is like comparing cars from different categories and in different states of repair. In other words, this makes no sense.
Besides, society distorted some people’s perception more in the past, and others’ less. So some people are forced to spend far more time and energy working through self-sabotage, living through difficult emotions, stress, attempts to understand themselves, etc. In other words, the same results will cost different people different amounts of effort.
Comparing yourself with someone else, or your results with someone else’s, is like comparing cars from different categories and in different states of repair. In other words, this makes no sense.
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To me, it feels like “don’t compare yourself with others, compare yourself with yourself” has already become widely accepted.
What’s the problem?
A person in the future cannot handle things worse than in the past by default, because they will already have more experience.
*I don’t count comparing your results, including your states, as comparing yourself with yourself. Because to me, that is comparing results, not what you were and what you are now.
What’s the problem?
A person in the future cannot handle things worse than in the past by default, because they will already have more experience.
*I don’t count comparing your results, including your states, as comparing yourself with yourself. Because to me, that is comparing results, not what you were and what you are now.
Any evaluation of yourself contradicts logic because:
1. These evaluations don’t even have anything to do with what you are like – they reflect your current state:
- I like my life = I’m good enough;
- I don’t like something in my life = I’m not enough.
2. What you are like now was defined by the perception you were given, and by how the structure of society later distorted it. In other words, it’s a set of circumstances, not a choice.
Besides, every decision you’ve ever made was made in favor of the best option you were able to see at the moment of choice. That means that throughout life, a person does their maximum.
Therefore:
1. These evaluations don’t even have anything to do with what you are like – they reflect your current state:
- I like my life = I’m good enough;
- I don’t like something in my life = I’m not enough.
2. What you are like now was defined by the perception you were given, and by how the structure of society later distorted it. In other words, it’s a set of circumstances, not a choice.
Besides, every decision you’ve ever made was made in favor of the best option you were able to see at the moment of choice. That means that throughout life, a person does their maximum.
Therefore: