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Naval Ravikant has a healthy way of thinking about this. If you are envious or jealous of someone's accomplishments or wealth, you must realize that it's impos
by hnracer 6y ago
Naval Ravikant has a healthy way of thinking about this.
If you are envious or jealous of someone's accomplishments or wealth, you must realize that it's impossible to be in that individual's position without taking onboard all the baggage that comes with it. Sure, Warren Buffet is rich, but would you like to swap with him and be 90 years old? Sure, that engineer is getting promoted faster than you, but do you also want their mental health issues?
It's a pernicious fiction to only imagine swapping a single characteristic (their success) and forgetting or not knowing about all the ways in which you're better off (fitness, friends, family, mental health, age).
- xsmasher 6y ago"Don't compare your insides with someone else's outsides" is a good maxim, but there's a sort of "just world" assumption in your post that everything balances out. The world isn't that fair. Some people just have it better.
- pachavra 6y agoThere are people that have it orders of magnitude better than others in nearly all areas. With Warren Buffet it's an extreme example.
- hnracer 6y agoI agree, I see it as a useful psychological trick that can be applied sometimes but not always