Hey, this is Leo, for Actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about how to stop comparing yourself to others.

And I'm going to give you seven key reframes or mindset shifts that you're going to need in order to accomplish this. We human beings are really

addicted and chimp's.

Just like our chimp cousins is that we're really addicted and wired.

Our brains are wired to care about status, our relative position in the social hierarchy,

and what's quote unquote normal.

This is something that chimps obsessed about and this is something that human beings

obsess about even more. And so this is really like a biological drive in your mind and if you want to

unwire this it's pretty challenging. Not impossible but challenging and what you're going to need to do is you need to start to look at the world

and you're going to start to look at your social situations in different new perspectives that you may have not considered

before. These are what I call reframes or mindset shifts. And I'll give you seven of those here that will help you to do this.

But before we get into those, let's talk about why we compare at all and the different ways in which we do comparisons.

So probably the most important reason why we compare ourselves to other humans is

because it gives us a sense of value or worth.

It gives our life a sense of meaning and purpose.

When I can know that, well, you know,

at least I'm better than that guy guy or at least I don't have the

same problems that she has or you know well how am I doing relative to my siblings to my

brother to my sister how am I doing relative to my parents, you know, or my grandparents.

Maybe my parents went to college or they didn't go to college and now I go to college.

How does that make me as a human being this entity that I am my ego how does that make me

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