A Good Way To Think About Comparison

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Ever been trapped in the quicksand of comparing your life to the glossy highlight reel of someone else's Instagram feed? We've all been there, staring down the barrel of someone else’s achievements and feeling like we're on the losing end. But here's the thing: it's all an illusion. Today, I take you through the ridiculousness of the comparison game. We're diving headfirst into the reality behind those seemingly perfect online lives and sharing a few laughs along the way. I'll also get...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:10.0	I've spoken about comparison on the podcast before many times, but my friend it bears repeating and I want to offer something today that's a little bit different that could perhaps shake you out of a bit of comparison,
0:25.4	maybe even we could have a bit of a laugh about this together today. If you still feel as if you're in the
0:32.4	trenches with it, maybe not all the time, but sometimes. Maybe you see someone who's
0:38.3	your age who feels a lot further along. A friend of mine said this to me, you know, she said, look, she wants to have a baby. She doesn't have any children yet. And she said that people my age, they have, they're on their third kid there's so much further ahead
0:54.1	oh number one right we're so quick to judge based on a certain timeline that's in our
0:59.8	minds when we go on social media, right?
1:04.0	Like secondly, it's so easy just to look at anybody
1:08.0	who's curating the best parts of their lives, right?
1:11.0	We put our best looks, our best experiences, our biggest wins. We put our very best stuff on social media.
1:18.0	And even though we know that we do this too, right? We share our wins, we share our victories,
1:23.2	we share our holiday photos, etc.
1:25.4	We know that that's really only 5% of the picture, right?
1:28.7	That's not our sleeping problems.
1:30.2	That's not the debt that we have.
1:31.8	That's not the fact we're worried if our dad is sick. It's not the behind the scenes day-to-day living. It's the best stuff. We know that because of how we present on social media, but we still make the assumption that other people's
1:46.0	social media is real and we then fill in the gaps in our mind thinking everything's perfect.
1:50.8	They work out perfectly each day. They probably have this
1:52.8	perfect nutritional diet. They're probably in this constant state of joy.
1:57.1	It's not reality, right? We look at people we compare based on timelines. We look at social media and even though logically
2:05.6	we know it's not reality based on our own life experience and what we present out there,
2:11.2	we still, it's so easy to get swept up and think that person has the perfect life.
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