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Comparison is the Thief of Joy!

By via & The School of Greatness podcast

(0:00) There’s a lesson that I learned this year, Teddy Roosevelt, who said comparison is the thief of joy.

(0:05) And I love the way he put that, the thief of joy. It steals joy.

(0:09) If you keep comparing yourself to other people and what they’ve achieved, that act of comparison literally will steal joy from you.

(0:16) You will never be satisfied with what you have, because you will always find somebody who’s richer, better-looking, got a nicer house and that better car.

(0:23) I think what ends up happening is we focus on the one that is competitive.

(0:27) I’m going to get more followers than Lewis. I’ll show him. And I go ahead.

I’m like, Yahtzee! (0:33) But if I just look over here, I’m a loser again. That’s what I mean by winning.

(0:36) I’m like, I’m doing great.

And then I’d change what I’m looking at or change who I’m looking at.

(0:40) And I’m like, oh, it was a friend of mine who said to me, Simon, you’ve won.

Stop it. You’ve won!