845 | Amy Morin: “The Only Person You Should Compare Yourself to is The Person that You Were Yesterday.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Comparison is the thief of joy. And the truth is, the things we tend to compare ourselves to aren’t really real. Real life isn’t edited, filtered, and carefully curated to ensure that we present our very best selves to the world at all times.
We know this. But at the same time, we can’t help but compare our perfectly imperfect lives to someone else’s Instagram feed.
Instagram isn’t real life. Reality TV isn’t even real. And when we compare our chapter one to someone else’s chapter twenty, misery is the only outcome. Stop.
On today’s Throwback Thursday episode, Amy Morin reveals the one and only person you should EVER compare yourself to: the person you were yesterday.
Source: The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin | TEDxOcala
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOD is the only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were |
| 0:06.3 | yesterday. |
| 0:07.3 | Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com. |
| 0:38.4 | It's throwback Thursday and we are turning back that clock all the way to episode 175 |
| 0:43.6 | and our feature speaker Amy Marin today. |
| 0:46.7 | Amy is going to encourage you to stop comparing yourself to other people because comparison |
| 0:54.8 | is what comparison is the thief of joy and always will be. |
| 1:00.6 | There is only one person you should be comparing yourself to and that's the person you were |
| 1:06.0 | yesterday. |
| 1:07.0 | Here's Amy. |
| 1:10.0 | My journey taught me that the secret to being mentally strong is that you have to give |
| 1:15.0 | up your bad mental habits. |
| 1:18.3 | Mental strength is a lot like physical strength. |
| 1:20.4 | If you wanted to be physically strong, you'd need to go to the gym and lift up your |
| 1:24.7 | weight. |
| 1:25.7 | But if you really wanted to see results, you'd also have to give up eating junk food. |
| 1:32.1 | Mental strength is the same. |
| 1:33.2 | If you want to be mentally strong, you need good habits like practicing gratitude. |
| 1:39.0 | You also have to give up bad habits like resenting somebody else's success. |
| 1:44.4 | No matter how often that happens, it'll hold you back. |
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