{"id":79780,"date":"2020-03-29T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=79780"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T01:51:37","slug":"how-to-stop-measuring-yourself-by-comparing-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/how-to-stop-measuring-yourself-by-comparing-with-others\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Stop Measuring Yourself By Comparing with Others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you think\na hike in your salary would make you happy? You believe so, don’t you? But hold\non to that thought. There is more to it than just the percentage increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 2 years,\nI observed a team of people. They exhibited a peculiar behavior after annual\nhike announcements. During the first year, the market was not performing well.\nAs a result, the hike percentages were low for all the team members. People\nwere disappointed, no doubt, but no one complained as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very next\nyear, the market had picked up. The whole team got a fantastic increase in\nsalary. Did the entire team enjoy and rejoice? You’d expect that, but what\nhappened was the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team\nmembers had more concerns than the previous year. The worry wasn’t that the\nnumbers weren’t good enough. What bothered people was somebody else on the team\nreceived a higher figure than they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concern\nwasn’t expressed only by a couple of people. A majority of people felt the\nsame. Some expressed it, and some didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s when I\nrealized, any performance measurement is always relative and based on the\ncomparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shook my\nhead in disbelief and told myself, “that’s absurd, I would never do the\nsame.” Or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 months\nafter starting my blog, I wanted to know where I stood. So I looked up how far\nhad the other bloggers reached by the 6-month mark. I was trying to evaluate my\nblogging success by comparing it against other bloggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\nrealized I was a culprit myself, a quote echoed in my ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n