The Comparison Trap in 2025: How to Stay Rooted When Everyone Else is 'Winning'

To My Sisters

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships

4.9 • 856 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re taking a look at the comparison trap that’s louder than ever in 2025. We see everyone’s highlight reels—but how do we keep our feet grounded when the pressure to “win” feels constant? Together, we explore tools to protect our peace, embrace our unique journeys, and remind ourselves that true success is personal, not a competition. Let’s break free from social media’s illusions and build roots that hold strong.

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0:00.0	No business leader wakes up thinking, gee, I hope I can make some huge trade-offs today.
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0:27.8	It's possible.
0:29.1	It's Octor.
0:35.2	The silent trap of comparison.
0:35.9	Chow.
0:38.2	Celebrate people how you want to be celebrated.
0:43.8	Sometimes that is the only way to kill the jealousy and the comparison.
0:48.0	Like the people that get celebrated the most are the people that have invested the most in other people usually.
0:49.6	It is to celebrate.
0:50.9	Celebration is also a strategy to allow yourself to not be in the pits.
0:55.5	Knowing that these are people that would celebrate me and have celebrated me, the bare minimum
1:00.8	is actually let them be into sunshine. It's actually okay. You better be in that comment celebrating.
1:14.7	Hello and welcome to the Two My Sisters podcast. I'm Renee. And I'm Courtney and we are your online sisters and host of the Two My Sisters podcast.
1:18.8	Now we're all about promoting the wellness, growth and development of a community of sisters across the world.
1:24.0	And in today's conversation, we are going to be delving into the silent trap of
1:29.2	comparison. Child. Oh, girls, we always have to revisit this conversation from time to time,
1:35.1	because it gets the best of us. It actually gets to the best of us. Comparison is a tough one,
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