Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon.

Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.

With your host, Dr. Riziz.

Welcome to today's show.

Today we're going to be talking about a game. But no, it's not a fun kind of game. It's actually kind of a crappy game. It's called the Comparison Game. And perhaps it's a game that you are familiar with. It's a game that I used to play on a daily basis. Honestly, probably on an hourly basis. I would do it all the time.

I didn't really have any control over it. I would always be comparing myself to others.

And is that something that you do in your life? Are you comparing yourself to other people when

you walk down the street? Are're looking at how other people are dressed

or their physical attributes or their weight or their height or their abilities when it comes to

social interactions or how much money they have how successful they are in their career how

much acknowledgement they get how other people respond to them if they are in a relationship

if there's women around them,

if there's women responding well to them, there's so many things we can compare ourselves on,

right? I mean, virtually everything. And it might be something that you're doing virtually all

of the time. So how are you comparing yourself to others? Think about that for a minute.

In the last couple days, when did you compare yourself to others?

And specifically, in what ways?

How were you comparing yourself to others?

Because that's really important.

That's going to give you a lot of information.

And it's really going to contain the key of how you can break free of this

game because it's really not a fun game there's really no way to win this game even if you

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