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Feeling jealous and competitive are an adaptive strategy. Humans naturally tend to equate themselves to others because it was inherent to outperform others in order to survive.
In the eyes of an average man, being envious is natural but the feelings does more harm than good.
- It takes your entire mind to purchase envy
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People's ability to act and think solely interferes with envy. Rather than working on accomplishing a higher level of success and achievements, it focuses a person’s mind and attention on what they lack. Who is an envious person? The one who is blind to see their own progress, all they see is someone else victory's and success. Without proper measures for their own progress, envious individuals swiftly lose their motivation altogether.
Secondly, those who bother about the aftermath that others encounter never take a time out to think about the journey their competitors had to undergo to reach that level of success. Envious people are blind to their own abilities and strengths, and they’re incapable to see the weaknesses of rivals.
It is advisable for you not to spend your entire life envying and trying to be like someone because you think they are more efficient, better at solving problems or more easily promoted, by so doing, you’ll never become better. A person who wastes his/her time bothering about others’ victory and triumph will never be able to see his/her own potential. Even when the envious person finally succeeds in life, he/she will have an eye for the other person that there is little cause for celebration. The venomous cycle extends, and the envious individual never gets satisfied.
The naked truth is that there will always be someone who is better, smarter and more pro efficient. The question is who would that be. Being envious condemns people to lead lives in which they frequently hope to have more. Genuine motivation for success concedes better outcomes than acrimony of other's achievement.
Conclusion
Basically, not only is freeing oneself of envy crucial for staying focused on what is important, it also makes life much more pleasing. Being able to celebrate another person’s success or victory without having a negative effect has led to more partnership and opportunity than if that success had created a catastrophic relationship.
As soon as you start coveting the success of others, realign yourself with your vision, and acknowledge that we are all embarking on a journey to become the greatest original versions of ourselves.
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Envy enslaves the soul and impairs effective growth; the earlier we learn to be appreciative towards the success of others, the better.
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Envy is a veil that blinds ones eyes from this one story whilst he focuses on another man's strengths. We all have unique talents that can be leveraged on.
But rather than build on theirs, many take offense at the successes of others.
Each time you feel tempted to be envious, snap out of that relapse and tell yourself, "I am happy for your success." Then after that, go on and continue working on your own dreams.
Brilliant idea, by so doing you're paving your own way to success. Thanks for the feedback.
Perspectives depend on the individual, which one's success is certainly seen from how they deal with it. But the influence of the surrounding environment is more instrumental in shaping one's motivation, envy of one's success from a positive point of view will provide benefits between the two parties, if negative is otherwise detrimental to one party!
The content is very interesting and very inspiring. Thanks @stach!!
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You wellcome..
That conclusion is very key, what is a life full of envy worth anyways
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Thanks so much for this great post. It teaches a whole lot.