Mini: What Goes Wrong when we Compare Ourselves to Others / MIND
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Our society really struggles with comparison. We scan and we scroll through the social feeds of others and often wind up putting ourselves in a position of comparison. If insecurities within us get activated, which normally happens, we can wind up feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. There are a few things to do that can help you move away from comparison, including understanding it's root and really asking yourself what you're looking for when you find yourself going down that rabbit hole.
LESSONS:
- Comparison can be a huge struggle for many of us and activate deep insecurities.
- Remember that comparison can be rooted in the initial need for belonging. If you are comparing, might you want to be connecting?
- Take a good look at your behaviors. You may need to hit the pause button on those that exacerbate comparing behaviors.
- Ask yourself, What am I really looking to find when I compare?
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| 0:00.0 | I do want to go back to the pathology of comparison because I think that's a huge problem. |
| 0:11.6 | And first off before I ask the question Dr. L |
| 0:13.7 | thank you for modeling what you're talking about which is being modeling my |
| 0:18.6 | wedding dress which you look fantastic by the way but just being present in the moment and showing your |
| 0:26.7 | excitement and that you know that definitely helps us you mentioned that but I just I just think |
| 0:30.9 | it's awesome that you're doing it because it's one thing to say it |
| 0:33.5 | it's another thing to do it. Also when it goes back to the pathology of |
| 0:37.6 | comparison it's kind of the root of everything bad other than natural |
| 0:42.3 | disasters you know how do you how do you get people to of everything bad other than natural disasters, |
| 0:43.4 | how do you get people to stop? |
| 0:45.4 | Because I would think it would go down |
| 0:47.4 | during this time where you're at home by yourself. |
| 0:50.1 | But what we tend to do is kids and adults we get on social media and start looking at people and what they're doing and comparing ourselves to others. |
| 0:58.0 | If you had a client come in that had an issue with that, it's always comparing themselves other people how what do you say to |
| 1:04.3 | them how do you get them to maybe think differently I know that I know that's the big question and |
| 1:10.0 | it's it's super hard to answer but I'm very curious what you have to say. |
| 1:14.0 | So, well, it's sort of hard to answer. |
| 1:18.0 | I mean, one of the easiest answers is, you know, you said like, you know, |
| 1:22.0 | let's say you had a client that comes in and talks about |
| 1:23.7 | comparison um that would be all of them like literally I think any client I've |
| 1:29.8 | ever worked with we've talked about it right because it the other thing is like here's here's that the thing that I think is super |
| 1:35.1 | interesting about comparison is that it's rooted actually my belief I don't know if there's data on this, but it's rooted in our desire for connection, |
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