How the Comparison Trap Can Serve You | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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Ryan Michler

Business, Health, Leadership, Relationships, Man, Society & Culture, Intellect, Style, Lifestyle, Money, Selfdevelopment, Wealth, Fitness, Selfhelp, Nutrition

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever wonder why comparing yourself to others can sometimes leave you feeling deflated and stuck? In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler unravels the comparison trap and its profound impact on personal development and self-confidence. He tackles the issue head-on by exploring how negative comparisons create feelings of inadequacy and impede progress.

Listen in as Ryan shares three practical strategies to turn those comparisons into powerful sources of inspiration and motivation. By recognizing the achievements of others and understanding that success isn’t a zero-sum game, we can transform envy into admiration and propel ourselves forward.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

(00:00) Episode Intro
(00:45) Overcoming the Comparison Trap
(08:48) Navigating Comparison and Humility in Leadership
(23:10) Embracing Growth Through Peer Learning

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0:00.0	Comparison is not the thief of joy.
0:02.8	Unhealthier, toxic comparison is the thief of joy.
0:06.5	Purge it, get rid of it, exclude it, eliminate it from your life.
0:10.6	Individuals who are doing better than you in areas that you want to
0:14.4	improve and ask yourself, is this inspiring me? Is this motivating me? Is this
0:19.9	compelling me to do better? And if it is is then you're using comparison as a very powerful
0:25.6	tool for self-development improvement in your life but healthy positive edifying
0:30.9	comparison might actually bring you more fulfillment than you have right now.
0:36.2	You're a man of action, you live life to the fullest, embrace your fears,
0:40.3	and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you you down you get back up one more time every time you were not easily deterred
0:48.0	defeated rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become at the end of the day and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.
1:02.0	Men today I want to talk with you about the comparison trap.
1:05.0	Every single one of us has heard of it.
1:07.0	Every single one of us has fallen into the comparison trap
1:10.0	and it ends up stifling growth and progress and expansion and just positive
1:16.2	optimistic feelings in your life and one thing I've been really focusing on lately is
1:20.5	trying to be more optimistic and hopeful and positive about the thoughts that I allow
1:25.9	to enter into my brain and when we fall into the comparison trap and we negatively compare
1:31.2	ourselves to others it's hard for us to move forward in confidence.
1:35.6	It's hard for us to feel good about maybe the work that we've done up to this point.
1:39.1	We feel inferior, we feel inadequate, and we lose hope in improvement and getting better.
1:46.3	So today I'm going to share with you three very simple things that you can do to eliminate
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