Hopefully, this story has made you realize something:
A crow lives in the forest and is very satisfied with life.
But one day he saw a swan.
This swan is so white and I am so black...... Raven thought.
This swan must be the happiest bird in the world.
He expressed his thoughts to the swan.
"In fact," replied the swan,
"I always felt like the happiest bird around, until I saw a parrot that had two colors. I now think that parrots are the happiest birds in the world. ”
So the crow approached the parrot.
The parrot explained, "I lived a very happy life until I saw a peacock. I only have two colors, but peacocks have many colors. “
The crow went to the zoo again to visit a peacock and saw hundreds of people gathered to see it.
After the people left, the crow approached the peacock. "Dear Peacock, you are so beautiful. Thousands of people come to see you every day. When people saw me, they immediately blew me away. I feel like you're the happiest bird on the planet. ”
The peacock replied, "I always thought that I was the most beautiful and happiest bird on the planet." But because of my beauty, I was trapped in this zoo.
"I inspected the zoo very carefully and I realized that the crow was the only bird that was not kept in a cage. So I've been thinking these days that if I were a crow, I could roam around happily. ”
That's our problem too.
We make unnecessary comparisons with others and become sad.
We don't value what God gives us.
All this leads to a vicious cycle of unhappiness.
Cherish what God has given us.
Learning the secrets of happiness and discarding comparisons that will only lead to unhappiness.
Charlie Munger has a good answer to this: "Caring about other people making money is one of the deadly sins." Jealousy is a very stupid sin because it's the only sin you can't have any fun with. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why do you want to torture yourself? ”
For those who may recognize Mr. Munger's wisdom, but still can't help but feel jealous, the best idea is that future outcomes tend to depend more on what you choose to focus your energy on than on anything you might have achieved in the past.
A professor at Harvard Business School has a high social status, but I bet he walked past Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook launched. The former has status, while the latter has a great project.
Focus on finding the greatest thing you can do, whether it's starting a company, raising a child, or helping others. The biggest cause of jealousy is the wrong standard for judging one's own success.