space studio. Hi, my name is Liz, your guest host this week, and welcome to Radio Head Space and to Tuesday.

I don't know about you, but it is so easy for me to think about how green the grass is on the other side

and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. Whether it's comparing your career success

to a colleague or your personal milestones with a friend.

Comparison can be a deflating and vicious cycle, especially with social media.

So today we're going to break it down. We'll discuss where this need to compare comes

from, how it affects our work, and how we can begin to measure success in a healthier

way.

So comparison, unfortunately, it's inevitable, because it's central to figuring out who we are.

And historically, it was really useful for us

to understand kind of where we were in relation to others

because that helped us survive. You know, you might challenge someone to a fight if you could kind of assess that you were bigger than them and could probably take them on.

So again, we're really hardwired to compare ourselves to others.

And I think it's actually important to remember this

because there's a pervasive myth that if you delete all your social media,

you will be free of comparison.

And we can get into that more.

There's certainly an element of truth to that.

But you actually are going to keep comparing yourself.

So it's really important to learn the fundamentals

of how to kind of keep that comparison in check.

And again, comparison is not necessarily bad.

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