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This is a topic I've given much thought to over the past few months. Which will explain why I can't be bothered to say much about it at the moment.
The short version is this,
In agreement with Brain Tracy, I think that people are made happy though fulfilment of goals. We get a huge buzz when we accomplish something and we feel proud of how far we've come when we look back at where we started. Stagnation is a recipe for depresion.
I trully believe that one's true competion is oneself. However, others are useful for calibration to keep one at full potential.
As such, sometimes when we see the achievements of others, we are confronted with the fact that we are not trying hard enough. I think it comes down to knowing, deep inside, that we can do the same (not the same achievements but the same commitment of energy).
Lowering the value of other's to bring up one's own is a lose/lose situation. You are still stuck in the same place and now you have no hope of things ever getting better...
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