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Hey guys, it is Trish Blackwell and you are listening to episode number 128

of Competence on the Go. Today we're talking about overcoming comparison. Now this is a

listener requested show and I thought it was a great podcast topic because I really

firmly believe that most of us are bought into the cult comparison.

We're taught from a young age and an early age to compare and measure our worth and

our value and our performance and our success based on others around us and we do that

Athletically we do it in school. We do it then in business and then there's this whole

social element and in comparing you know how's your family life compared to your

family life and then your financial success versus someone else's you know and what

vacations do you take and you and here's the thing is social media takes it to a whole new level.

Now, if you don't have a lot of time today

and you really just wanted five minutes of confidence,

I'm just, I'm gonna just put it out there for you.

The only thing you need to know is Teddy Roosevelt's quote,

the comparison is the thief of joy. What I'm going to be talking about today's episode is that? What does that mean?

How the mental act of comparison is one of the most insidiously

insidiously toxic types of thinking in which we can engage or allow ourselves

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