Envy.
An emotion I don’t understand but runs a lot of people’s hearts whether they are conscious of it or not.
I’ve lost so many relationships I thought were genuine to this “deadly sin”.
If someone is more successful / smarter than you study what they do.
They obviously know something that you don’t that can help drive your own success.
Through hard work and perseverance you can reach the star.
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.
I like the principle on witch, I assume, you make this statement, but also think that in part it's wrong, especially because it doesn't, and per definition can't work, for everyone, as if we'd all follow it everyone would constantly be leaving 😅 (even the dumbest person in the world is the smartest around when nobody els is there)
Surrounding yourself with smarter people (even if only on a specific topic) is the way to learn a lot quicker/more, but for those people to be there they have to not follow this "rule" (BTW in some ways that would imply that they're not the smartest)
Maybe the solution is to sorround yourself with people that are smarter in some regards but can learn from you in others ;)
Yes. When I was very young I often felt envy, but I realised that the one you should blame for this feeling is yourself, not the target of that feeling. After I realised that, I just quietly noted the feeling when it came and let go of it🤷
I suspect it’s a form of mental illness. My favourite definition of envy is being impressed and depressed at the same time. Some people just can’t handle the depression I guess, take it all personally
