It’s easy to get caught up in self-talk along the lines of – “I’m not as smart/articulate/strategic/insert-your-favorite-aspirational-word as <insert benchmark>.”
This post isn’t about avoiding comparisons however.
If you can, you should definitely do so.
It just isn’t easy.
Another approach to tackling this problem is to just habitually add a line every time we hear ourselves saying so. In this version, we’d say – “I’m not as brilliant as person X. But, I’m me. And I’m enough.”
That turns out to be true 100% of the time.
A Learning a Day 