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Denis Gorbunov's avatar

Settling for mediocrity is easy because you see a supermodel on Instagram and tell yourself you could bee like that too but ... Then you get a short-lived dopamine hit from imagining where you could be. That's it. You say "day in and day out" and this resonates - the price to pay for success is doing hard stuff.

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Destiny S. Harris's avatar

PRECISELY! TY for stopping by Denis. :)

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Raveen's avatar

'We love watching other people live the lives we desire. We love observing others who are “on top”.'

Yeah, indeed. Doing so somehow makes us feel associated with that type of lifestyle and it indulges our desires.

However, we should take care not to get too caught up with such things as it prevent us from focusing on and improving our own reality.

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Destiny S. Harris's avatar

Focus on the self. Avoid comparisons. All sounds easy enough, yet why don't more of us do it? Great adds here, Reveen! TY for reading.

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Raveen's avatar

I feel one main reason is our inherent, evolutionary nature of our thoughts reaching outwards and towards the future, instead of focusing inward.

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