The comparing-yourself-to-others game
Oh, hi friends!
Sometimes our actions can look, um, a little crazy? Spastic. Like they have no particular trajectory. Hopping from one idea to the next, one client to the next, one job to the next.
But when you’re watching someone else, you don’t have the whole story. What seems devil-may-care to you might, to them, be the careful culmination of many events and decisions and weekly visits to their therapist.
The inverse is also true. When you admire someone’s career that appears perfectly calculated and deliberate, they may have tried and failed and flopped to the top.
You can never really know. So what’s the point in playing the comparison game?
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
From race car driver Mario Andretti (quoted in How Google Works). We should probably all maintain some control but…there’s always a way to go faster, yes?
Newly in love with composer, lyricist, and comedian Tim Minchin, who wrote the music in Groundhog Day: The Musical (and Matilda!). His inspiring, witty graduation speech is worthy lunchtime viewing. (12 mins if you watch on 1.5x speed)
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara