>>1665449heres a diagram of "nonchalant" self help i would call it where it tries not to put pressure on yourself. originally posted on some lit self help thread but it got deleted
you will notice the top left diagram. that was my first attempt. but i quickly realized what was wrong with it in the caption there. now these are already commonly regurgitated, but visualized lines in self help inquiries
the point being, on the bottom of my image here is a line. what you can compare it to the previous diagram is that there is no room to add a ceiling. doing so in adding a ceiling (which we would call someone elses line) you would have to actually physically give yourself a fucking ladder to climb on top of someone elses line and walked the path someone already walked already. notice this is exactly the same scenario in walking steps. people have walked the same set of steps a thousand times, and an individual has already reached the top or "mastered" that set of stairs.
to reiterate the top left is the wrong way to compare yourself to others, its egotistical. ego meaning you only care about the opinions of others.
"hey look how high i climbed"
the bottom is the happier way. when you walk a line noone else does, and how you can look at someone else walking their line, and what its goal is to teach you. You can look at someone elses line and feel happy that they achieved something, because knowing you, you are not heading in their same path.
you can get better at your friend throwing an axe at the stump. you can enter an axe throwing competition in wyoming. that just means your the best axe thrower in wyoming, not the rest of the world tho. but you need to realize you have to get better then yourself every time. the goal is not to win competitions but to be better then you previously were
