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Don't you feel good enough about how successful you are?❓

Having an ideal is a good thing, because it helps us know which direction to go... what to do, but it can also hurt us. If we compare ourselves now to an ideal... the beautiful future will immediately become a robber of our happiness. 😈

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There is a reason why we should not compare ourselves to ideals.

Because the ideal is the horizon we will never reach, the image we created ourselves, what our hearts wanted it to be, but it hasn't happened yet.

This, the author calls "thinking in a 🕳️ hole."

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If we want to see our own progress and growth,

We have to compare ourselves to the past... not ideal. 🙅🏻‍♂️🙅‍♀️

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That's easy? Yeah, that's easy.

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If we put ourselves now against the ideal,

We will feel that we are not doing well enough.

Inadvertently, taking action makes it feel worse than doing nothing else.

(Then why do we act, right?)

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But if we ourselves are now compared to ourselves in the past

We will see progress and growth more easily.

Every day we act is a success in itself.

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🙋🏻‍♂️: Comparing ourselves today with ourselves in the past doesn't embarrass us, stop setting goals and stop trying, does it?

👨🏻‍🏫: No, comparing ourselves to the past will give you the fuel to be motivated to move on. The better we feel, the better the outcome of what we do. But if we compare ourselves to other people or ideal ourselves, the outcome will be the opposite.

🙋🏻‍♂️: So why do we like to compare ourselves to others or the ideal ourselves?

👨🏻‍🏫: Because nature created us like this.

🙋🏻‍♂️: What does that mean?

👨🏻‍🏫: Want to know? Let's go read...

🙋🏻‍♂️: How do you know?

👨🏻‍🏫: We can choose how to let it dictate our lives.

Or how are we gonna be you?

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If you want to feel your success more easily, the idea of holes and hills is the answer because it is a short idea that is not difficult to understand and can be deployed. Highly ✳️

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Book Title: The Habits of Success of People Are Not Perfect

Author: Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Publisher: Bingo

Number of pages: 202 pages

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... Read moreหลังจากที่ได้ลองปรับเปลี่ยนวิธีคิดโดยนำตัวเองในปัจจุบันไปเทียบกับอดีตแทนอุดมคติแล้ว ผมพบว่าเป็นวิธีที่ช่วยให้รู้สึกดีขึ้นและมีกำลังใจในการเดินหน้าต่อจริงๆครับ เพราะโดยปกติแล้วการเปรียบเทียบตัวเองกับอุดมคติซึ่งเป็นเส้นขอบฟ้าไกลๆ อาจทำให้เรายังรู้สึกว่าตัวเองไม่ดีพอ แต่เมื่อลองหันมาเอาชนะตัวเองในเมื่อวานที่ผ่านมาทีละน้อย จะเริ่มเห็นความก้าวหน้าชัดเจนขึ้นและลดความรู้สึกท้อแท้ได้มาก ในหนังสือ "นิสัยแห่งความสำเร็จของคนไม่สมบูรณ์แบบ" โดย Dan Sullivan และ Dr. Benjamin Hardy มีแนวคิดเรื่อง "The Gap and The Gain" ที่ช่วยอธิบายว่าเราควรวัดความสำเร็จจากความก้าวหน้าที่ผ่านมามากกว่าการโฟกัสความขาดแคลน ซึ่งผมพบว่าแนวคิดนี้ช่วยเสริมสร้างความสุขและความมั่นใจได้ดีจริงๆ ผมอยากแนะนำให้ทุกคนลองนำแนวคิดนี้ไปใช้จริงดู จะช่วยทำให้รู้สึกดีขึ้นกับความสำเร็จของตัวเอง แถมยังช่วยลดความเครียดและความยุ่งยากทางใจที่เกิดจากการเปรียบเทียบตัวเองกับผู้อื่นหรืออุดมคติที่สูงเกินไปอีกด้วยครับ ลองเริ่มจากการเขียนบันทึกเล็กๆ ว่าคุณทำอะไรได้ดีขึ้นในวันนี้เมื่อเทียบกับเมื่อวานบ้าง แล้วเชื่อไหมว่าความรู้สึกพึงพอใจจะตามมาเองอย่างค่อยเป็นค่อยไปแน่นอนครับ

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