心灵鸡汤英语.doc

做最好的自己：停止与他人的比较并且开始自己的奋斗之旅|心灵鸡汤 Being Your Best: Stop Comparing and Start Running If you want to drain your mental energy, there is one easy way to do so: compare yourself with others. Comparing yourself with others will only give you two things: either you feel proud when you are above, or you feel jealous and intimidated when you are below. As you can see, both are negative emotions that won’t do you any good. Unfortunately, our culture is full of comparisons. People like to compare themselves with others. While some people may say that comparing is a way to motivate themselves, I think there is a better way to do that without draining our mental energy. Here it is: Find a role model and use him as a pacer. A role model is someone whose quality and achievements you admire. It’s no secret that the way to be great is by emulating those who are great. By finding the right role model, you will have concrete example of the qualities you want to achieve. Since those qualities are now tangible, it will be much easier for you to run after them. By selecting the right role model and running after him, you will quickly improve yourself. Here are some steps to apply this principle: 1. Stop looking at others’ statistics This is the way to stop comparing yourself with others. I know this is not easy to do since we have the tendency to compare ourselves with others. But, as I’ve said above, this will only drain your mental energy. So resist the temptation to look at others’ statistics for comparison sake. 2. Look around for someone whom you want to emulate Instead of comparing, you should find someone you want to emulate. This is perhaps the most difficult step here because it’s not easy to find the right role model. Your role model should: have significant achievements that you want to emulate (in this case, you do need to look at his statistics). not so far ahead that you can’t realistically hope to run after him have performed well consistently for long time have other c