Simon reflects on how comparison steals joy, citing Teddy Roosevelt's warning about competing with others. He discusses the trap of measuring yourself against people like Lewis on social media, arguing that personal satisfaction matters more than winning.
There's a lesson that I learned this year, Teddy Roosevelt, who said, comparison is the thief of joy. And I love the way he put that, the thief of joy. It steals joy. If you keep comparing yourself to other people and what they've achieved, that act of comparison literally will steal joy from you. You will never be satisfied with what you have because you will always find somebody who's richer, better looking, got a nicer house, a net better car. I think what ends up happening is we focus on the one that is competitive. I'm going to get more followers than Lewis. I'll show him and I go ahead. I'm like, Yahtzee! But if I just look over here, I'm a loser again. That's what I mean by winning. I'm like, I'm doing great. And then I would change what I'm looking at or change who I'm looking at. I'm like, oh, it was a friend of mine who said to me, Simon, you've won. Stop it. Like, you've won.
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