Crippling Comparison - 866
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
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How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
When we compare ourselves to others, it's crippling. It is said that happiness is found when we stop comparing ourselves to other people. And every minute that we spend wishing we had some one else's life, or beating ourselves up because we don't have what they are doing, is time spent wasting our own lives. This concept is called social compare son and was first explored by a social psychologist named leon festenger back in 19 54. But can you even fathom how much more intense and more powerful and more predominant social comparison is to day with social media? Iman before social media, the only thing we had to compare ourselves to were people whom we knew basically in real life.
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