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No Stupid Questions · 2025-03-16 · 34 min · 6,044 words

13. How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People?

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I think I'm about to ask a truly stupid question. There are actually stupid questions. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to no stupid questions. Today on the show. Comparing yourself with others can be emotionally damaging.

So how can we stop doing it? Isn't that interesting that when I clicked on my Amazon ranking I immediately went to his Amazon ranking. Also, how can we stop confusing? Correlation with causation. If he hadn't been blinded in his left eye, he never would have become a scientist.

Angela Duckworth. Steven Dubner. So I've not read deeply on the following topic. I'm guessing you have, but what I have read suggests That it is a bad idea.

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