Comparison is a choice you make fifty times a day without noticing. Notice one of them today.

Most comparing happens below the level of deliberate thought, which is why it feels like something that happens to you. It is a move your attention makes, fast and habitual, and like any habit it becomes visible the moment you look for it. Seeing one instance clearly does more than resolving to stop.

Catch one today, just one, and note what you were comparing and against whom. No verdict required; the noticing is the whole exercise and it tends to loosen the rest.