When you base your self-love and acceptance on how you compare with others, happiness will likely elude you. Even if you master your chosen field, the threat of someone else usurping your position will dilute the ego gratification of being better than. It’s only a matter of time until someone else displaces you, just as you did to the last winner. Whether you climb higher, run faster, earn more or live more luxuriously, external markers may massage your ego during a brief instant of comparison, but those micro-moments pale in comparison with the sustainable well-being generated by…
Loving yourself.
