Why We Should Stop Comparing Ourselves to Other People
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I discuss:
The illusion of social media
The man in the mirror
Whether or not there is a time to compare and/or emulate others
The power of staying consistent and using yesterday as your benchmark
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Eddie Panero. |
| 0:06.0 | And in this episode, we're going to talk about comparing yourself to others. |
| 0:10.6 | And why your greatest adversary is the person staring back at you in the mirror. |
| 0:40.1 | Thank you. All right. So let's talk about comparison. And why using that as a gauge or litmus test to define your own life, your own progress and your own success. It's just, it's not, |
| 0:46.3 | well, it's unnecessarily discouraging. And there's a few reasons for that. But I'll back up a second. This comes from Lucas, who says, hey, Eddie, hope you're having an amazing week. Could you |
| 0:52.3 | talk about comparing yourself to those around you in your next podcast? |
| 0:57.3 | Long story short, there's a place to do it. |
| 1:01.6 | It's very small. |
| 1:03.5 | Like the 99% rule is don't. |
| 1:06.5 | It's discouraging. |
| 1:08.2 | You set your rules. |
| 1:10.5 | Nothing is more important than your journey, your goal, beating who you were yesterday. |
| 1:16.6 | Your greatest opponent's going to be the one looking at you in the mirror, right? |
| 1:20.0 | No one that you're comparing yourself to is going to get you up when the alarm clock goes off. |
| 1:24.8 | No one that you're comparing yourself to is going to make you work. |
| 1:29.1 | You know, that all comes from you. And not only that, we have a tendency to create narratives and |
| 1:38.1 | storylines that simply aren't real. Like, we look out and we think that everyone's being success or everyone is successful. |
| 1:46.9 | Everyone is quote unquote succeeding, whatever that means to you. Because I think social media has a |
| 1:53.2 | big role in this, they show their highlight real. And that's all you receive. Right. You are, |
| 1:59.9 | you are judging your behind the scenes, |
| 2:02.7 | your work in progress, as the famous quote says, |
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