39: The Problem with Comparisons

Summary

This is part one of what I hope will be a four part series covering tools and concepts you can use if you are going to be involved in anyway in an end of year assessment, new years resolutions or anything like that. Topic one is the dangers of comparisons. Let's talk about different kinds of comparisons, why they are a problem, what we can do about them and how this applies to end of year stuff.

Key Topics & Time Stamps

• Welcome 00:00
• Intro 00:26
• The Problems with Comparisons 02:42
• Comparing Ourselves to Others 04:52
• Social Media Comparisons 07:02
• Comparing Ourselves to Ourselves 11:44
• How to Address This 13:54
• Application to End of Year 20:12
• Wrap Up 22:14

Key Takeaways

• Comparing anything to anything comes almost as easily as breathing.
• Comparing ourselves to anyone else is a big no no.
• Social media comparisons can cause huge issues.
• When comparing ourselves to ourselves, we need to be deliberate and only do good comparisons.
• If we work at it, we can limit how often comparisons take us down a rabbit hole.
• Avoiding comparisons is a good way to improve the quality of our end of year assessments.

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