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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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throughout my life, i've gone through phases of low self-esteem. this is normal, we all experience this. i'm not super excited to admit this, but for as long as i can remember, phases of low self-esteem have caused me to fixate on one person that i believe is better than me, and compare myself to them. their appearance, their relationship or lack thereof, their friend group, their job, their family situation… everything. i chose to admit this today because i'm talking about comparison. it’s a pretty normal human instinct, and it's important that we have the ability to compare, but when it comes to comparing ourselves, it gets a little bit more complicated. so let's figure out why we compare ourselves to others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm not super excited to admit this but I'm going to anyway.
0:03.0	Throughout my life I've gone through
0:05.4	phases of low self-esteem.
0:07.6	Now this I'm not embarrassed to admit. This is normal. We all experience this.
0:11.8	What I am embarrassed to admit is one of the things that happens
0:16.8	during these phases of low self-esteem. For as long as I can remember, phases of low self-esteem has caused me to fixate on one person to compare myself to.
0:31.2	One specific person. Now it changes every time. Each phase of low
0:37.2	self-esteem comes with a new person to compare myself to incessantly, but without fail, I always find one person that I believe
0:47.4	is better than me in every single way that I decide to compare myself to
0:54.0	throughout the duration of the phase.
1:00.8	Part of me is like impressed by my subconscious that my brain just decides to pick one person that for whatever reason is my God during the you know duration of the phase
1:08.0	like it's so bizarre that my brain decides to choose one person but for whatever reason it does and usually
1:16.0	it's through social media not always but usually and I will compare myself to this
1:22.2	person in every single way.
1:25.0	Their appearance, their relationship, or lack thereof,
1:30.0	their friend group, their job, their family situation, like everything.
1:36.2	I choose one person and I just use them as a weapon against myself.
1:42.2	And I will never admit to anyone who those people are.
1:45.9	I mean, there's been probably 50 of them throughout my life.
1:50.3	But it's always one person.
1:52.3	I chose to admit this today because I'm talking about comparison today.
1:57.0	I was particularly inspired to do this because I'm in a phase where I sort of have low self-esteem. I'm going to be
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