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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Comparison: How to Use It to Your Advantage
In which areas of your life would you like to spend more quality time?
Whatever area you wish to spend more time in, let that not be spent with a comparison mindset. A 2008 study found that comparative thought accounted for 12% of all our thoughts. Roughly translated to about 2 hours per day is what we spend comparing ourselves to others.
Social media has only intensified this pattern even further. In India alone, people spend just under 3 hours per day (that’s about 18% of our waking hours) on social media. Almost 90% of all posts across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are reels highlighting other people’s lives. In other words, social media is constantly bombarding us with a subscribed notion of #success and #happiness, making us miserable about what we feel we lack.
If you do the math, about 30% of our day is spent going down the spiral of misery because of this comparison. Umm... Genius me ;-)
From time to time I have personally been guilty of comparing myself with other people who are more successful than me — professionally and financially. It’s only human to do so. When I first switched careers from being an IT professional to being a #humanpotential #lifecoach, I spent miserable hours comparing myself to every other coach out…
