When I met with a mentee recently, she looked sad and a bit depressed. When I asked her if anything was wrong, her shoulders sagged lower, and she said was feeling like a failure in her career and her ...

We all have ups and downs, At first glance, it may seem other people live a much happier life than we do. But nobody knows how much time and effort it takes for other people to get a successful job or ...

The drive to compare yourself to others is natural, but ultimately harmful—especially if your work involves being in the public eye. To stop comparing yourself to others, it helps to shift the lens to ...

I know a lot about comparing ourselves to others and what that does to us – both the positive and the negative effects -- because I’ve engaged in comparison more times than I can count. In my therapy ...

It’s time to get real about a growing, insidious problem that’s linked to depression and other mental health challenges. It’s affecting you, it’s affecting me, and it’s affecting our children: it’s ...

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We humans are comparison creatures. We are constantly measuring ourselves against other people. This attribute may have evolved as a means of helping us fit into the social hierarchy of the cultures ...

When I was about eight, I came home from school one day and innocently asked my mother if I was “the best.” At school, we had been learning about comparative words like “better” and “best,” and I ...