Stop comparing yourself to others at the gym. The speaker argues that constant comparison distracts from what matters: being better than you were yesterday. Use others as reference points sparingly, like market research, but treat them as aliens with no bearing on your own progress.
It's human nature to compare ourselves to others, but you want to do it in a constructive way so they actually make sense. Like, you'll be looking at what others are doing as part of. Okay, this is research. This is market research. How does the landscape look like? Where am I in relation to that landscape? And that's that it shouldn't be like every time we are in the gym now we are looking. Okay, what is he or she doing? Oh, what is he or she doing? Oh, okay. No, no, no. We're just focusing on us. There come the time and place when it makes sense to do those comparisons and see where we are at and gauge our progress in that way. Could be a way of doing that, but it shouldn't be standard practice because then it takes focus away from the actual process and we focus more on the result of am I there yet? Am I there yet? Am I better than this guy, this girl? Or worse than this guy or girl? Doesn't matter. The most important thing is that we're getting better than the one we were yesterday. Everybody else is just an alien. They're not giving or taking anything from you.
