How Peer Comparison Triggers Enemies and Jealousy?

Jealousy is one of these emotions that is less about survival and more about highlighting what's really important to us. So when you engage in a peer comparison, you see somebody lapping you or, you know, sprinting past you, I think it's a moment to pause and say, do I want to be doing that? For me and maybe for you too, it's identifying like I decided not to be hardcore in academia so that I could pursue popular press writing  and become a more engaged parent.