Comments on: Success Principle #13 – Run Your Own Race

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Bangkok apartments — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:32:03 +0000

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By: çocuk oyunlar?

çocuk oyunlar? — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:22:51 +0000

Chris-
Thanks for reminding me about this important principle. It’s pretty hard to not compare yourself to others in law school because how well you depends on how well everyone else does. Law school grades on a curve. There’s only so many A’s given. You can do A work, but might not get the A because someone did it just a bit better. That part frustrates me about law school.

By: oyun

oyun — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:59:20 +0000

Chris, so glad you said that about this story – it’s always bugged me. It’s OK as a joke, but when it’s held up as “model behavior”, then there’s something terribly wrong!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:51:23 +0000

Drew! I was just thinking about you guys yesterday! I need to catch you for coffee one of these days.

As to your question, I think it is simply human nature. We are hardwired to look outside ourselves for validation. Think about little kids. One of their favorite things to say is, “Look, Mommy!” or “Look, Daddy!”

After we grow up we still do that in our minds. Only instead of appealing to our parents, we do that internal comparison with whatever outside source happens to be in our lives at the moment.

I guess the trick is finding the right outside source.

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By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:12:01 +0000

sage wisdom Chris,
but any thoughts as to why we so easily want to fall back into comparing ourselves with others?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:29:06 +0000

Until the end… His end? Or did he get it figured out and win?

By: April Groves

April Groves — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:05:31 +0000

Love the post, Chris. Falls right in line with all the stuff I am brewing over in my own head. Good stuff at the right time – at least for me anyway…

Another note. I am a huge Survivor fan. Last season, I was really pulling for Yau – but I noticed this about him – he never did well in the challenges. He was always looking over to see how far ahead/behind the others were or how they were doing the task at hand. He never seemed to be focused on what he was doing…didn’t work out well for him – until the end when it seemed like he realized what he was doing and stopped.