Social media has made the comparison trap worse than any previous generation has experienced it. But the trap existed long before Instagram. Coaching works on the internal dynamic that makes comparison so compelling and so damaging.
Browse coaches →Coaching for the comparison trap addresses the specific beliefs that make others' apparent success feel like evidence of your inadequacy. It builds a more accurate, more grounded measure of your own progress, one based on your actual values rather than others' highlight reels.
People whose sense of how they're doing is almost entirely determined by how others appear to be doing. People who feel fine about their life until they see what someone else is achieving. People who know rationally that comparison is misleading but can't stop doing it.
Calibration, using others as reference points for what's possible, can be useful. The comparison trap is different. It uses others' highlights to generate a consistently negative self-assessment that has no basis in reality.
Reducing exposure can help in the short term. But it doesn't change the internal tendency to compare. Coaching addresses the source.
Usually a direct one. The comparison trap is often driven by an underlying belief that your worth depends on how you measure up. Addressing that belief is the most durable solution.
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