Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of AMA. I'm your host Tom Billu and I'm here answering your questions.

By the way, if you're in Los Angeles, we're going to be at the Los Angeles Comic Con. This weekend,

we're booth 1,000 and two. Hopefully you guys will come by. Check it out. See me, say what's up, and dig neon future.

All right, first question is from Jack Baker. I've recently discovered that I really struggle with

comparing myself to others. I often assume that certain people are more put together or intelligent than I am.

However, once I get to know them, I realize that their issues are in fact very similar to mine.

I was wondering if you have any advice on preventing these faulty assumptions from forming in the first place.

Thanks. So this is one of those what you choose to believe about yourself is insanely important.

And the loop that you allow yourself, allow being the key word here, is insanely important. So

if you're building a false vision of yourself, it is because you're building yourself a steam around

something that I would say is highly fragile, being smart, being good, being talented, being right,

worthy. All of those things are incredibly fragile. And by that, I mean that you're always going to

meet somebody that's better, faster, smarter, stronger, whatever than you. So, providing yourself on any

of that stuff is already dangerous. Okay, so when you pride yourself on that, that's what sets up the loop

of, oh my god, you haven't achieved this. You're not enough. You're not as smart as that person

because your mind is constantly on the lookout for quote unquote danger. And that is a sign of

danger because your ego is under assault. And once people realize that that will read, even though

it's purely emotional danger, still reads as danger. And because it reads as danger, your body's

going to go into all the protective mechanisms, forcing you to really think about and obsess or

have anxiety over what might happen. So that is the problem. So getting down to what you build

yourself a steam around, what your identity is, that's really the starting point. Okay,

if you get that taken care of and you're pride in yourself on being the learner and being willing

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