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Comparison is the thief of joy. It’s also not necessary.
by ericd 5y ago
Comparison is the thief of joy. It’s also not necessary.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoAbsolutely. You can never win with comparison, you can only lose. Am I rich? Arguably, yes. Am I richer than my neighbors? Not sure. But if I were, then we move to, Am I richer than anyone in my city? State? Country? World? When you climb, when you get to the point that you win the comparison game, you realize that you were only comparing yourself to a subset, and there's a bigger pond to play in... in which you're currently one of the losers.
- esyir 5y agoA less cancerous comparison (but by no means good) might be to approach this from a statistical/distributions point of view. What quantile of the population do I belong to? Still a comparison, but you set the bounds early. If you have to do the damn thing, whether by quirk of personality or impulse, at least make it explicit.