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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Good morning. All right. Today, I want you to stop doing this one thing.

And by stop doing it, it will change your life trust me the

greatest cause of unhappiness is created by contrast and comparison for the most part

happiness is really an illusion in other words you make up the idea of whether you are

happy or not and you really only know whether you are based on judging

something by comparing it to something else typically this means comparing yourself to other

people you could be having a really cruddy day for instance and then meet someone who's

experienced a devastating situation and is now desperately struggling in their life,

with little or maybe even no hope or prospects for a better future.

And then all of a sudden, by contrast, you start feeling better about yourself and your situation in life.

And you've probably also had the opposite experience where you've been feeling pretty good about yourself

and you're a lot in life and then you visited someone else's big beautiful house or met someone else's

well-behaved children or looked at someone else's exotic and fabulous vacation photos and all of a sudden

you started to feel pretty crappy about that lot in life you thought was pretty good before.

You see, we only understand ourselves by comparison to someone or something else.

Thus, whether we feel satisfied and happy with ourselves depends largely on who or what we're

comparing ourselves to. For example, the guy in Mogadishu, who gets two full meals a day

versus the one meal everyone around him receives feels like a king. Yet some people in America

think that if they don't have the latest Louis Vuitton handbag or whatever, then they're

living life like a pauper. See, our perspective has gotten way out of

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