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- And if someone's behind me, I don't really compare much at all because like why bother?
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Abschnitt 1 Harvard did this big fancy study, but basically the five people that you compare yourself to, not necessarily you spend the most time with, but that who you compare yourself to has
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0:00Harvard did this big fancy study, but basically the five people that you compare yourself to, not necessarily you spend the most time with, but that who you compare yourself to has the highest predictor of your outcomes. The goal is to get around all bunch of people who are better than you. And the nice thing is that if you're a beginner, there's a lot of people better than you. Comparison is a very [music] useful tool to figure out where you stand and where you can improve. And I think that's all it is. I always want to compare myself. I want to look at other people who are ahead of me and see what they're doing that I'm not doing so I can learn. And if someone's behind me, I don't really compare much at all because like why bother? Or if they are behind me but they're better at me at something then I want to figure out why they're better than me at that thing. The part that gets people in trouble is where they say, "And therefore I am bad." Or "Therefore I am good."