Healthy Competition: A Therapist Take on Comparing Yourself to Others

In our culture, comparison and FOMO (fear of missing out) are a very real issue. Our "hustle culture” is fueled through imagery which sets us up to think others have "it" figured out and we can have the potential to get swept up in this setup. This pulls at our egoic self and often doesn’t get us to the true fulfillment or happiness we think we saw others achieve.

It’s common to feel that we must be productive to truly matter. We all have an experience of feeling “less than” when compared to others, especially online. Our culture thrives on marketing things to us. By design, messages everywhere are telling us "You want this, you need it.” It’s an age-old truth that the goal is to show us that by “buying in” we’ll achieve true happiness. But it's hard work chasing that ideal and we must question who we are and what we want!

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