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Okay, sure, I do want you to compare yourself, but not in the way that you think.

As a social tribe species, we humans are naturally compelled to compare ourselves with one another.

We are continually measuring people's status,

the levels of respect and attention that they receive,

and noticing any differences between what they have and what we have.

Our need to continually rank ourselves and measure our self-worth through our status

is a trait that is noticeable among all hunter-gatherer cultures.

It is measured even among chimpanzees.

We all compare ourselves with others.

We all feel unsettled by those who are superior to us in some area that we esteem, and we all

react to this by feeling some form of envy.

It is most likely to crop up among our friend circle, our peers operating in the same profession.

Sure, for some of us, this compulsion to compare ourselves can spur us on to work harder and to

push ourselves to excel through our work but it is still not a healthy

form of compulsion and for others it can turn into a nasty envy people who feel

that they deserve to have as much as others, yet somehow feel helpless

to get such things. Those people turn their feelings of inferiority and frustration into covert attacks and acts of psychological sabotage on those that they envy.

Now nobody admits to acting out of envy, but all of us feel envy from time to time, the sensation that others have more

of what we want, be it possessions, attention, admiration, respect, etc. Think about it.

Think about the last time that you heard about or read

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