Latest / Black Box Theory Podcast / Comparison Is Killing Your Progress — Stay on Your Path
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- Malcolm: think to wrap things up, like think only thing I leave with. I say, man, like comparison is a thief of joy, man. Like like what's for you is for you. I say for anybody kind of like like trying to like navigate these next couple of years. Like, like it it's very easy to like make yourself like if you scroll on LinkedIn or and I was literally just talking to my to one of my my Lar brothers Miles about this yesterday, bro. But it's like it's very easy to kind of like scroll on a LinkedIn or an Instagram or whatever social media platform. Any any type of social media platform where you see like more about what someone else is doing. It's very easy to feel like you're behind or you're not doing enough or you're just like like just like way out of your league, right? Or way in over your head. I was thinking like, like focus on you, man. Like regardless of what everyone else is doing. Like at the end of the day, like a lot of these things where you see what someone else is doing and they're showing you like the at the end of the day, social media does design so that you can only see the top one percent or the high absolute highlights of someone's life. Right. Like like no one everyone will be quick to show you the the money or the new car, the new house, the achievement, the new job, the new promotion, but no one shows you the struggles, right? Like the the the when stuff is going bad, right? Like when you're at your absolute lowest, like rock bottom, nobody ever shows that. So it's like you don't know, right? Like everything that all you're seeing is like what they want you to see. And that some anyone can tailor their life to make it seem like they just have everything figured out. And it's very easy to like kind of like feed into that and feel like you're not doing enough yourself. Right. But when you let kind of like social media and these different platforms and just like looking at other people's experiences and what they have going on. Like it's very easy to kind of like psych yourself out and make yourself feel like you're not doing enough. But If you stay committed to yourself, to your path and like the things that you set out to do, like what anyone else is doing per se, like shouldn't really matter. Like obviously, like, you know, you have your people that you're gonna celebrate and support regardless of what happens, but don't don't worry about like don't overindex into what anyone else is doing. Like what's for you is for you and it's it's it's it's supposed to be that way. So I would just say kind of like keep that confidence in yourself to understand that like your path, like whether it happens earlier or later, like You know, if you put the work in and you know, you sow the seeds, like you're gonna eventually like reap the fruits of your labor and and and and the the product like down like the byproduct of the work that you put in. So yeah, like I say, it's very easy to get distracted and kind of like fall into that trap of I'm not doing enough or or dang, like he has this, I don't have this, like like be content with what you have and with the work that you've done and where you're at in life and you know, things are gonna figure itself out. But yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's that's kind of like my answer. And like before we do wrap up, definitely want to say thank you to my boy Wes for even like hopping on this the the the pod with us, man. Somebody that, like I said, very, very Wesley Grammer: You say colour. Malcolm: near and dear to us, man. Someone who has a lot going on for himself, got a got a bright future ahead. and yeah, like I said, this is somebody that's that's put the work in. And like I said, like he's here. He's someone that's on here because he can speak firsthand to some of like, you know, the work that he's done and and where it's gotten him so far. So like I said, we're gonna try to keep this train going. And like our platform, like I said, We see the reach that it has. Like we want to keep having incredible guests on here. People like Wes, like Jason, who can like just like have these speak these incredible experiences that no one else can really like come on here and just talk about. So like I said, we definitely keep the momentum going. But I said thank you again for coming on, sharing your your your you know, your background, your experiences, and like I say, always always a good good time catching up with y'all.