How To Stop Measuring Yourself By Comparing with Others
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Do you think
a hike in your salary would make you happy? You believe so, don't you? But hold
on to that thought. There is more to it than just the percentage increase.
For 2 years,
I observed a team of people. They exhibited a peculiar behavior after annual
hike announcements. During the first year, the market was not performing well.
As a result, the hike percentages were low for all the team members. People
were disappointed, no doubt, but no one complained as such.
The very next
year, the market had picked up. The whole team got a fantastic increase in
salary. Did the entire team enjoy and rejoice? You'd expect that, but what
happened was the opposite.
The team
members had more concerns than the previous year. The worry wasn't that the
numbers weren't good enough. What bothered people was somebody else on the team
received a higher figure than they did.
The concern
wasn't expressed only by a couple of people. A majority of people felt the
same. Some expressed it, and some didn't.
That's when I
realized, any performance measurement is always relative and based on the
comparison.
I shook my
head in disbelief and told myself, "that's absurd, I would never do the
same." Or so I thought.
6 months
after starting my blog, I wanted to know ...
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