To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others

All of us spends a comparative lifestyle from birth to death. As infants we keep measuring our height and weight, in school we compare our scores in tests and even at the job we compare salaries and performance. We always use our personal averages to measure and compare our strengths with our peers. Even though the word "Personal averages" means our own unique strengths, still we keep it comparative to others. So do we focus and work to build up our strengths? Do we accomplish what we want?

We always highlights our weaknesses, compare them with others and keep mourning throughout the day. If we met with a single unpleasant situation we claim the entire day as a bad day even though there were many pleasant situations throughout the day. Always good outweighs the bad and makes your day average. The bad always helps to highlight your good. If there's no darkness how would you identify light? Try to compare the present yourself with yourself in the past. If you have improved and if you have identified your strengths then yes, you are successful.

Start focusing on yourself instead of others. Everyone in the world is unique and has many different strengths. Try to polish your skills and to overcome weaknesses. Always be yourself.

A reflective idea by - Sumithu.R

(From the speech of Dean Furness at TED Talks)