@cassidywat
Cassidy Waterson
@cassidywat · 1:21

Comparing Yourself To Others

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But it gets super easy to compare yourself to people who are doing more than you or in a different field than you because it can just be like, I don't know, very different material. But pretty much I was just getting in line, getting a coffee, and the person right next to me was talking to this girl right next to him, pretty much saying how he did his undergrad at UCSB. And then he went to Stanford for three years to work as an engineer

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@Dee94
Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94 · 1:38
Hey, Cassidy. So I would say this is something that is unavoidable and it's just human nature. You know, we're always just looking to see where we are in comparison to others because this is is all we have to base our success off of essentially, is how well we're doing in comparison to others. I think for me what I do is I don't know
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@aShamaninJourny

"The inevitable balance of academia"🧘🏽‍♂️❤️🙏🏽💯💭🤔🤓 @cassidywat

Hey Cassidy, thank you so much for creating this space. And it's a really interesting question because even though we can sit here and talk about how we shouldn't compare ourselves, like Dee is saying, we're going to inevitably do it right. As we were going through seminary, that religious academic track, we had a professor that we looked up to as a mentor, somebody that had thoughts that were just like, wow, something we aspired to want to embody and believe as well
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@gracepouri
grace pouri
@gracepouri · 2:36
My point was that it's just because you know more About.com he knows more about engineering, you give yourself engineering because, okay, you won't do good, you give him a contest, he won't do good. In the end, it's what interests you. It doesn't make any difference for any harder
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@gsalzer
Grace Salzer
@gsalzer · 1:23
So I have this problem too. I compare myself to others, like, all the time and it's super easy to do it and like, we know it's not good, but we do it anyway. But I guess sometimes I just tell myself like, I'm happy with my life, I'm happy with what I'm doing and that's all you can really ask for. Just focus on the good parts and just. I don't know
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@sasharunyen20
Sasha Runyen
@sasharunyen20 · 1:25

I also compare myself to people a lot!

I totally relate to this well, I constantly find myself comparing myself to other people and it's really a habit I'm trying to break. We're all so different. We're all living so such different lives. We can't possibly expect our individual experiences to be comparable to someone else's. And it's easy to get caught up in the fact that you might not be doing enough or you're not as good as someone is at something, whatever it is
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