Yo today's QOD is

Comparison is the deadliest thing we can do to ourselves

Because we will always come up short

Here we go welcome back to the quarter the day show I'm your host

Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm we got Simon Sinek back on the show

Talking about the thief of joy, which of course is comparison

You're gonna hear his story of how he was comparing himself to another author and it turns out pretty funny

here Simon

Look human beings we can't help ourselves but compare ourselves to others and

And comparison is is the deadliest thing we can do to ourselves because we will always come up short

I mean all it does is exaggerate all of our insecurities

It's okay to enjoy other people's success

But you let them live their lives and you live your life. Oh, and by the way, they're curating their social media

That's not really they're

And so you're making decisions based on how you feel based on their curated things

I know I've talked to so many millennials. I know somebody who's out of work really depressed and yet

She goes and does all these things so she has the appearance of this amazing successful life and

And so you met now she may be making those decisions based on what her friends who knows what sort of weird twisted exaggerated

You know circle of of depression. This is forming. Mm-hmm. So go back to the rules of the infinite game your friends are there to admire

Your friends are there to say God that I'm so happy with them. What are they doing that I can learn from?

I'll give you an example. So you were all we can all fall into this trap. So you know in my business

Authors and speakers and folks like us. We're all comparing ourselves to each other and sometimes it can get silly and competitive

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