Comparing yourself to others is not a bad thing. It’s the context with which you do it in.
I find that the more I go down the spiritual route, I compare myself to others even more. Just admiring different expressions, like “oh shit so this is what you’re into”. “This is where you’re at”. As if everyone is like a piece of art and you’re in an art gallery.
Even the recently banned AlphaMale. All bullshit and drama aside, he’s a very unique package. There’s no one like him, lol. Look at how he stuck out in the forum. Yeah he has issues and traumas clearly, but look at it objectively like an art. The art, is the specific stage he’s at for those who are aware. Imagine if you reverse-anthropomorphized him into an art piece. There is no ego or judgement when you look at art… it’s just various expressions to learn from, behold or understand in fascination.
If you’re comparing through a filter of inadequacy, lack of self-worth, lack of self-trust in your potential, etc… then yeah that’s just choosing to believe in lies.
One of my goals is to double my income and travel the world.
One of my friends already has already done both of those things.
So he’s XYZ and I’m EFG.
Do you think I’m like “well fuck, time to be mopey because others already did what I want”.
Nah, I’m just like “cool, I’ll be there soon”. It’s like whatever, hahaha.
When you hear success stories, the main takeaway is that the subliminals work. All you have to do is run them consistently, take action, journal, etc.
You know I like my video game analogies, lmao.
So I’m playing this video game. You kill monsters, get experience and level up.
I’m level 2. Just killed this level 7 bat-creature. It was tough but I accomplished it.
Suddenly a gang of level 90’s in come out of nowhere and start talking about how they raided a level 500 dragon dungeon boss. All types of crazy shit.
I don’t care about them, I’m just playing and enjoying the game at my own pace.
My thought process is “oh that’s cool. I didn’t know that they had dragons in this game.” Now I want to level up even more. I want to unlock new areas, new content, new skills.
Just play the game, grow, level up and have fun.
Just run the subs, take action, journal and become a badass.
All this comparison and whatever is nonsense. If you need a different approach, then start thinking like a boss. Start thinking like a main character.
I don’t know, extract whatever is juicy from this post… if there even is anything hahaha.