A short excerpt from a YouTube talk (by Mike Andes) about personal capacity and the dangers of comparing yourself to others. The speaker warns that people have different life circumstances (family, church, marriage, available hours) and trying to match someone else's pace or output can lead to burnout—an observation grounded in comparisons within a close community (Augusta).
And your personal capacity is different than the person sitting next to you and the person you're gonna have lunch with tomorrow and the person you admire. On social media, it's different. And if you just try to match them, you're gonna wreck. This is something we fight in Augusta because we all know each other so well, and we start to compare and, oh, man, they're doing so good, and they're growing. Their capacities are different than yours.
They don't have to go to church. They don't have a family. They're not married. They can put 60, 70 hours in. You can't. If you try, you're gonna break.
