031 Personal Development VS Comparison To Others: Ep 21 of The Philosophy Of Fitness

It's easy to default to comparing ourselves with other people. But how valuable is this, and are there better ways to strive for improvement? Today on Live All Your Life, Tali and Cody bring another episode of The Philosophy Of Fitness where they discuss the pros and cons of comparison, and how we might develop better strategies for personal development both within and outside the world of competition.

00:43 Icebreaker: Favorite Mike Myers Roles ..."I'm a hyper hypo!"

05:41 INTRO: Personal Development VS. Comparison With Others; easy to do in our Instagram World! 

13:14 Unhealthy comparison often stems from a lack of knowledge - it's based on a lot of assumption

18:07 Your environment may not promote you to think about your personal development as yours. Sometimes your surroundings and associations are prompting comparison.

20:17 IFS: Internal Family Systems framing competition in a holistic view is cooperation. Sometimes comparisons can help us to rise to the challenge. 

28:11 In the first week of the Covid shutdowns back in March of 2020, we made a list of intentions as to how we wanted to conduct ourselves. We weren't perfect, but we went into it with intention. Here is what we hoped for:

1. Don't accumulate any more debt.
2. Not burn through savings.
3. Pivot to location-independent income.
4. Learn about sustainability - Be resourceful.
5. LEARN AN IMPORTANT LESSON.
6. Brings family closer together
7. Stay healthy physically/mentally
8. Make decisions we feel good about
9. We remain on the same page - move through it together
10. Be considerate of others

33:40 Your only real competitor is yourself. Be better than yesterday.

43:04 Comparison with others can give you a skewed sense of reality. Firstly, you don't know what advantages or disadvantages they've had. Secondly, your focus can shift from one competitor to another to change your own status for better or worse. Comparison only with yourself helps to eliminate those two illusions. Tali- "There's a big difference between being THE best and being YOUR best and they come with really different experiences and territory.

46:12 Your "competition" could be having the same comparison issues as you. Everybody has their own timeline.

51:27 Actions c

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