How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
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How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
The things that make us the most jealous and envious are usually the things that we feel we’re not living up to within ourselves.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
The benefits he enjoys appeal to me, but I’m not willing to pay the price he’s paid for achieving them. Remembering the Comparison Fallacy allows me to wish him well and stay focused on achieving the Goals that are most important to me. I can be genuinely happy for his success and not waste my energy on pointless envy. The same trick works in any s
... See moreJosh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
The less a man is in touch with his true talents and abilities, the more he will envy others. If we envy a lot, we are denying our own realistic greatness, our own Divine Child. What we need to do, then, is to get in touch with our own specialness, our own beauty, and our own creativity. Envy blocks creativity.
Robert Moore • King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
We feel envy when someone else has access to an area of happiness that eludes us. The natural response to this feeling is shame; we feel we lack the generosity of spirit to celebrate their achievement.
The School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
Many seem to believe fame is fun until it’s the big, bad, alienating kind, but I’d argue the challenges start at the beginning—with any modicum of attention online, say—and scale from there. Finding peace, I think, requires a certain trepidation around your desire to be seen as exceptional. I saw this idea captured perfectly the other day, by the a... See more
#221: “The tension of staying too long”
One of the great, unexpected places to find what you value is in envy. Those people you admire, who are doing what you wish you were doing, are actually lighthouses on a dark sea.