In order to grow you need to regularly reflect on your past and decide what to change for the future. It is judgement. It is comparison. Those are unavoidable. What is avoidable, is what kind of comparison scheme do you use:
Allow yourself to be compared through opinions of others and you'll loose yourself. You'll end up abused as a people pleaser. Constantly stuck between contradicting desires and demands of others.
Allow yourself to compare through lenses of your emotions and feeling you feel right here, right now, and your life will become unstable and undirected, controlled by those who put anger in you and who bribed you with treats.
Gather knowledge and experience, and build rational, logical structure, respecting dependencies of causalities, and write it down - at least notes. That was you'll build a lighthouse for your life and you'll rarely be lost or misdirected. It won't be perfect but more than enough.
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There's a great mental exercise. Create in your mind a projection that is outside your body and your current situation. A projection that don't have access to your current thought and emotions. And make the projection judge you and create advice for you.
The exercise is twofold:
First of all, you'll actually train to become more empathetic towards others. It's because now you see and experience both sides over a single source of truth. You can compare the two viewpoints. You can analyse and reason about them. You can figure out what is correct and when.
Second of all, you juxtapose your emotions and mental chaos against forced 3rd person point of view that is mostly objective. A point of view that aims for long term effects and ignores short term pains. It's unpleasant but will thank yourself for this later.