Comments on Profile Post by RTS

yup it is a killer of genuineness....

Comparison gives birth to competition, which in turn leads to excelence.

I couldn't agree more, @Rufi-sidd. When you compare yourself with someone who you feel is better than you in some areas, you unknowingly try to imitate their modus operandi, hence therefore suppressing the real you.

That is also true, @Hirame. It just varies from person to person. Though, most people fear committing mistakes, which therefore limits their growth.

as long as that competition is healthy I agree with you @Hirame...... dirty play, overload of pressure and negativity leads to toxic comparison and competition which doesn't help a person to grow

Do you realize absolutely any action involving knowledge from other people could be called a comparison, and that it is the driving force of our society and its progress? How does a state stay under the rule of law without comparing its law to other countries? How does technology evolve?

How do you figure out you've progressed enough in your lesson or not? If you don't compare yourself, won't you only stay a good enough student at most, never knowing you're but a frog in the well?

it stagnates a person's growth and increases the bad stress and in the long run if they do not get the desired or expected outcome it results in behavioral problems like self pity, lack of motivation and much more .....

How many hermits do you know who're not more depressed than a few pussies that can't face real life? How many of them are actually geniuses and the best at what they do?

I'm sorry but you're using an exception as a rule of thumb. People simply do not improve enough without human interactions.

Learning the modus operandi of others is normal, it's not "suppressing" yourself. If that is the case, then any kind of learning you can do should not be, and we should be stuck in early Middle Age.

hmmm bettering yourself is one thing and one upmanship is another......

How do you draw photorealistic paintings without a millenia of knowledge leading to this point? Is that suppressing yourself, should you stick to drawing doodles? Are you not comparing the instant you look at the painting of someone else's, anyway?

You don't need to better yourself. If you draw no comparison, which is impossible unless you shut yourself from life, you're not even understanding the world you live in.