Compare & Despair - Thoughts on Comparison and how to avoid too much of it

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode inspired by a recent blog post of Sarah's, Sarah and Laura have a candid discussion about comparisons: where the urge to compare comes from, how it makes each of them feel, their own "compare & despair" triggers, and ways to combat these feelings. In the Q&A, a listener writes in about dealing with unexpected extra demands at work.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
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0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 207. We will be talking about
1:08.8	the idea of compare and despair. I know we have a love,
1:13.2	hate relationship with social media. We love connecting with so many of our listeners through
1:17.4	social media without the internet. What would we even be? Sarah and I got to know each other
1:23.7	through our blogs, wonderful way of connecting with human beings, but also brings its
1:29.7	own challenges as we see certain aspects of our fellow human beings' lives and perhaps
1:34.9	not other aspects of their lives.
1:37.5	So Sarah wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about tradeoffs and sort of what I took from, because it got at this whole compare and despair
1:46.6	idea with social media, but you're pointing out that even with too high incomes, people still
1:53.2	have to make some sort of tradeoff. So maybe you can just talk our listeners who maybe don't
1:58.3	read your blog a little bit through what you were talking about. Of course. And there wasn't really a lot of despair in that post. I think sometimes, I don't know,
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