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We Should Not Compare Ourselves with Others The document discusses five reasons why people should avoid comparing themselves to others and instead focus on self-comparison. First, there will always be someone better so comparisons can lead to feeling inferior without cause. Second, comparisons can foster pride from finding someone worse, rather than personal growth. Third, comparisons encourage improving by diminishing others rather than self-improvement. Fourth, comparisons involve judging others without understanding their experiences. And fifth, comparisons can cause copying others instead of developing one's own identity and goals. The document argues that self-comparison according to one's own values and principles leads to greater acceptance and happiness.

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Sample of A Persuasive Speech

We Should Not Compare Ourselves with Others The document discusses five reasons why people should avoid comparing themselves to others and instead focus on self-comparison. First, there will always be someone better so comparisons can lead to feeling inferior without cause. Second, comparisons can foster pride from finding someone worse, rather than personal growth. Third, comparisons encourage improving by diminishing others rather than self-improvement. Fourth, comparisons involve judging others without understanding their experiences. And fifth, comparisons can cause copying others instead of developing one's own identity and goals. The document argues that self-comparison according to one's own values and principles leads to greater acceptance and happiness.

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We Should Not Compare Ourselves with Others

In our culture, a lot of times people advise us to compare ourselves with others. "You should be
like your father," "You can win; the others aren’t as good as you," "You must be the best of your
class," etc., and this is not always the best way of thinking. There are many reasons to change
this way of thinking and begin to compare ourselves only with ourselves. This is the way it should
be, and in this paper, I will discuss some of the most important reasons for this.

The first reason to avoid comparing yourself with others is that there will be always someone
better than you. It doesn’t matter in which aspect, but it is always true. Therefore, you could
feel inferior to others and maybe without a real reason. For example, you can be an incredible
architect and the best of your generation, and this can make you feel incredibly good, but if
someday someone is better than you are, you could feel sad although you are still the same
incredible architect that you were before.

The second reason to elude this kind of comparison is that you will always find someone worse
than you, but as opposed to the first reason, this can make you feel better than the others, and
this feeling can turn into a horrible pride. For example, if you are the second-best student of
your class, and one day the very best student leaves the school, you will then be the best one
although you are still only as good as you were before.

These two first reasons lead us to a third one: If you want to be better than the others, you don’t
need to improve yourself; you only have to make the others look bad. If I want to be the leader
of the group, but you are the leader now, what I need to do is to make you look like a traitor or
stupid and then I can take your place. Then I will be better than you.

The fourth reason to stop comparing we is that the one who compares him/herself with others
is judging, and this doesn’t help us develop as human beings. Nobody knows the internal reality
of the other; nobody knows his/her story and his/her deepest intentions, and when we judge
it’s harder to accept the others.

The last but most important reason to avoid comparing ourselves with others is that when we
do, we can be tempted to copy them, to do the same things, and to act and think like them. The
problem with this is that if we copy someone, we will never know who we really are and what
we really want, and then we will never grow spiritually. For all these reasons and because we
are unique, we should not compare ourselves with others, only with ourselves. The only
comparison pattern that we really have is our consciousness.

So, if we use this pattern we will not feel less or more than others; we will not try to make others
look bad; we will not judge so much; and we will accept ourselves as we really are. In other
words, we will live happier (Eunice Kee2013). 1

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