How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others (Without Pretending the Urge Disappears)

How To Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

The instruction to stop comparing yourself to others is well-meaning and almost entirely useless, because comparison is not a habit you can break. It is a near-automatic process built into how humans evaluate themselves, and it has no off switch. What can change is not whether you compare, but what you compare to, and what