Why Comparing Yourself to Others Is a Bad Habit

ditch it as soon as possible

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“Comparison is the thief of joy.” — Theodore Roosevelt

Often we catch ourselves in moments where we compare ourselves to someone else. We compare our appearance, position, or simply status in society.

Comparing yourself to others is very natural for people because a person is a social being, that means a being that lives in a herd, in groups.

There are different ways to compare yourself, and like anything in life, there are ways to do it well and constructively, in a way that helps, and there are ways where it becomes bad and distracting.

Unconstructive self-comparison with others is most often felt in adolescence, it is the stage of life where this topic is most sensitive and the age when identity is formed. A person needs to fit into a group because a person alone is quite weak. That’s why we compare ourselves to others a lot and often.

Nowadays people compare themselves a lot to influencers, with whom it is difficult to compete. Young people begin to compare themselves with images that cannot be compared in nature.

Unfortunately, social networks often embody such empty values, for example, only the external appearance, if I compare only with that, then it is…