There is a famous quote often attributed to Teddy Roosevelt: "Comparison is the thief of joy." In the age of Instagram and "Transformation Tuesdays," this thief is working overtime. It is easy to scroll through your feed, see someone who dropped 10 pounds in a week while you have been stalled for a month, and feel a sudden crash in your own morale. But for #MindsetMonday , I want to go deeper than a bumper sticker. I want to look at a line from my favorite piece of prose, Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927). "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself." This is not just poetry; it is a logic gate. It describes two distinct system failures: Vain: You compare yourself to someone "lesser" (someone struggling more than you) to inflate your ego. This is false confidence. Bitter: You compare yourself to someone "greater" (someone losing weight faster) t...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.