The Negative Effects of Comparing Yourself to Others

i feel like such a large part of this is our internal psychology because it sounds to me like you're seeing your environment as a positive sum world or a positive sum game and not a zero sum game in which every time someone else wins you lose. i think that actually has helped me have a healthy relationship to other artists around me um where it is like man like oh my god this person is an incredible painter wow i could never do that but i could buy their painting and support them as an artist. I've been doing watercolor for about three years now maybe three, maybe three-and-a-half with the help of one colleague who's kind of had a sort of architectural architectural