You compare your worst trait to their best one and call it a fair fight.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Comparison is rigged by what is available. You know every weakness you have in detail, and of other people you mostly know the parts they show, which are their good ones. Putting those two sets side by side produces a conclusion that feels like evidence and is really an artefact of the viewing angle. Everyone loses that comparison.

Make it fair or drop it this week. Compare your best with their best, or your week with your own week last year. Better still, when the urge arrives, go and do twenty minutes of the thing you feel behind on, which is a more useful response than a scoreboard.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose best quality are you measuring your worst against?

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