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    Essay 8 Why We Should Not Compare Ourselves With Others

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    The document discusses why we should avoid comparing ourselves to others. It provides 5 key reasons: 1) There will always be someone better so you could feel inferior without reason. 2) You could feel pride from being better than others, which is not good. 3) Comparing yourself could lead to trying to make others look bad to make yourself look better. 4) Comparing and judging others does not help our development. 5) Comparing can lead to copying others instead of discovering who you truly are. We should only compare ourselves to ourselves to accept who we are and be happier.

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    Essay 8 Why We Should Not Compare Ourselves With Others

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    The document discusses why we should avoid comparing ourselves to others. It provides 5 key reasons: 1) There will always be someone better so you could feel inferior without reason. 2) You could feel pride from being better than others, which is not good. 3) Comparing yourself could lead to trying to make others look bad to make yourself look better. 4) Comparing and judging others does not help our development. 5) Comparing can lead to copying others instead of discovering who you truly are. We should only compare ourselves to ourselves to accept who we are and be happier.

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    The document discusses why we should avoid comparing ourselves to others. It provides 5 key reasons: 1) There will always be someone better so you could feel inferior without reason. 2) You could feel pride from being better than others, which is not good. 3) Comparing yourself could lead to trying to make others look bad to make yourself look better. 4) Comparing and judging others does not help our development. 5) Comparing can lead to copying others instead of discovering who you truly are. We should only compare ourselves to ourselves to accept who we are and be happier.

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    Essay 8 Why We Should Not Compare Ourselves With Others

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    The document discusses why we should avoid comparing ourselves to others. It provides 5 key reasons: 1) There will always be someone better so you could feel inferior without reason. 2) You could feel pride from being better than others, which is not good. 3) Comparing yourself could lead to trying to make others look bad to make yourself look better. 4) Comparing and judging others does not help our development. 5) Comparing can lead to copying others instead of discovering who you truly are. We should only compare ourselves to ourselves to accept who we are and be happier.

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    Essay 8 Why We Should Not Compare Ourselves with Others

    In our culture a lot of times people advise us to compare ourselves with others. "You
    should be like your father," "You can win; the others aren’t as good as you," "You must
    be the best of your class," etc., and this is not always the best way of thinking. There are
    many reasons to change this way of thinking and begin to compare ourselves only with
    ourselves. This is the way it should be, and in this paper I will discuss some of the most
    important reasons for this. THESIS STATEMENT
    The first reason to avoid comparing yourself with others is that there will be
    always someone better than you. It doesn’t mater in which aspect, but it is always true.
    Therefore, you could feel inferior to others and maybe without a real reason. For
    example, you can be an incredible architect and the best of your generation, and this can
    make you feel incredibly good, but if someday someone is better than you are, you
    could feel sad although you are still the same incredible architect that you were before.
    The second reason to elude this kind of comparison is that you will always find
    someone worse than you, but as opposed to the first reason, this can make you feel
    better than the others, and this feeling can turn into a horrible pride. For example, if you
    are the second best student of your class, and one day the very best student leaves the
    school, you will then be the best one although you are still only as good as you were
    before.
    These two first reasons leads us to a third one: If you want to be better than the
    others, you don’t need to improve yourself; you only have to make the others look bad.
    If I want to be the leader of the group, but you are the leader now, what I need to do is
    to make you look like a traitor or stupid and then I can take your place. Then I will be
    better than you.
    A fourth reason to stop comparing ourselves is that the one who compares
    him/herself with others is judging, and this doesn’t help us develop as human beings.
    Nobody knows the internal reality of the other; nobody knows his/her story and his/her
    most deep intentions, and when we judge it’s harder to accept the others.
    The last but most important reason to avoid comparing ourselves with others is that
    when we do, we can be tempted to copy them, to do the same things, and to act and think like
    them. The problem with this is that if we copy someone, we will never know who we really
    are and what we really want, and then we will never grow spiritually.
    For all these reasons and because we are unique, we should not compare ourselves
    with others, only with ourselves. The only comparison pattern that we really have is our
    consciousness. So, if we use this pattern we will not feel less or more than others; we will not
    try to make others look bad; we will not judge so much; and we will accept ourselves as we
    really are. In other words, we will live happier. (539 words)

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