Have you ever felt personally victimized by your own destructive thoughts?
. Specifically, the kind of thoughts that sound something like, “She’s so much more talented than I am”, or “At this age, I should beWe can all relate to the emotional toll of comparing our behind-the-scenes to someone else’s highlight reel.
And, no surprise, this anxiety only heightens in our hyper-connected digital age with comparison always at our fingertips. "It creates a tsunami of excess information at warp speed, which could intensify the effects," Susan Fiske, Ph.D., a Princeton University psychologist, tellsFiske coined the shorthand "envy up, scorn down" to summarize the two main ways we—"envy up" is when we feel lesser than others, and "scorn down" is when we view ourselves as better than others. Both can create toxic emotions, according to Fiske.
"Envy says, 'I wish I had what you have,' but it implies 'And I wish you did not have it,'" she writes in herThe more formal term,, dates back to 1954 by psychologist Leon Festinger. Festinger hypothesized that the impulse of observing how we stack up against others is “connected to the instant judgments we make of other people—a key element of the brain's social-cognition network that can be traced to the evolutionary need to protect oneself and assess threats.
So, it’s human nature to compare ourselves against others in one way or another. But rather than toiling over thoughts that steal our power, we can slowly shift our focus toward ones that remind us of
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