Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today §

Created: 2022-10-05 10:39

We tend to overvalue what we don’t have and undervalue what we have.

What’s the point of being the Prime Minister of Canada if somebody is the President of the United States, Jordan says. However, between Trudeau and Biden I would rather be none.

It is impossible to see the full picture of some else’s life. We might see their successes, that’s is what people usually brag about, but not their perils.

On the other hand, we do see the full picture of our own lives. And that’s is something we can easily and fairly compare against. If we improve ourselves a tiny bit daily, the Compound effect will reap great rewards on the long run.

To discover what we should improve on we have to take a deep look at ourselves to understand what are the things we want, and if the things we want do really make sense. Maybe we could want other things that make more sense.

Not because we want something it means that is the best for us. It could be that we want something that isn’t good or that we ignored something even better. This happens because our vision, both the actual physical vision and the psychological one, the meta-vision for the lack of a better word, are partial. We see clearly very little and are blinded to the rest. Seeing everything all at once would be unmanageable. And so we must direct our vision towards the things that are worth and thus want those things, which then we can slowly improve ourselves into achieving.