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Jemma Sbeg

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The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

Okay, let's talk about how to handle and manage career jealousy. I had this weird epiphany at the gym the other day. I was running on the treadmill and at my gym, the treadmills are set up so it's like two rows.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

Okay, let's talk about how to handle and manage career jealousy. I had this weird epiphany at the gym the other day. I was running on the treadmill and at my gym, the treadmills are set up so it's like two rows.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

Okay, let's talk about how to handle and manage career jealousy. I had this weird epiphany at the gym the other day. I was running on the treadmill and at my gym, the treadmills are set up so it's like two rows.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

So when you're on the treadmill, there is someone directly in front of you or there is a treadmill directly in front of you and there is someone probably running on that treadmill during the busy times.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

So when you're on the treadmill, there is someone directly in front of you or there is a treadmill directly in front of you and there is someone probably running on that treadmill during the busy times.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

So when you're on the treadmill, there is someone directly in front of you or there is a treadmill directly in front of you and there is someone probably running on that treadmill during the busy times.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

and I was going not very fast I was obviously I'm recovering still in an illness and I was watching this girl in front of me and oh my lord she was quick she was doing 11 kilometers an hour at like a 5% incline or like a 5.0 incline and I was watching her and I was watching like the kilometers tick up and whatever and I was like oh my god I need to catch her I need to catch her

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

and I was going not very fast I was obviously I'm recovering still in an illness and I was watching this girl in front of me and oh my lord she was quick she was doing 11 kilometers an hour at like a 5% incline or like a 5.0 incline and I was watching her and I was watching like the kilometers tick up and whatever and I was like oh my god I need to catch her I need to catch her

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

and I was going not very fast I was obviously I'm recovering still in an illness and I was watching this girl in front of me and oh my lord she was quick she was doing 11 kilometers an hour at like a 5% incline or like a 5.0 incline and I was watching her and I was watching like the kilometers tick up and whatever and I was like oh my god I need to catch her I need to catch her

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

And I was like, wait, I'm on an entirely different treadmill. What am I going to go do? Run on her treadmill with her? Like I can match her pace. I can do everything that she is doing. We are still running our own race. When you compare your career to someone else's career, you are comparing two people running on two different treadmills. There is no way that you can catch up with them.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

And I was like, wait, I'm on an entirely different treadmill. What am I going to go do? Run on her treadmill with her? Like I can match her pace. I can do everything that she is doing. We are still running our own race. When you compare your career to someone else's career, you are comparing two people running on two different treadmills. There is no way that you can catch up with them.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

And I was like, wait, I'm on an entirely different treadmill. What am I going to go do? Run on her treadmill with her? Like I can match her pace. I can do everything that she is doing. We are still running our own race. When you compare your career to someone else's career, you are comparing two people running on two different treadmills. There is no way that you can catch up with them.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

But you do need to focus on your own race. I don't know. I was just in that situation and I was like, wow, this has just made me rethink every time I've tried to feel like I need to beat or best someone for whatever weird reason my brain is cooked up. I also want to remind you, and this is specifically advice for those of us in our 20s, which I'm assuming is a lot of you.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

But you do need to focus on your own race. I don't know. I was just in that situation and I was like, wow, this has just made me rethink every time I've tried to feel like I need to beat or best someone for whatever weird reason my brain is cooked up. I also want to remind you, and this is specifically advice for those of us in our 20s, which I'm assuming is a lot of you.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

But you do need to focus on your own race. I don't know. I was just in that situation and I was like, wow, this has just made me rethink every time I've tried to feel like I need to beat or best someone for whatever weird reason my brain is cooked up. I also want to remind you, and this is specifically advice for those of us in our 20s, which I'm assuming is a lot of you.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

You are comparing the very beginning of your race. You know, there are so many years to come, so many peaks and plateaus that everyone's career will naturally go through. No one's career is always going to be on the up and up. There will will be times where they're not motivated, where you get made redundant, where the culture and the environment shifts.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

You are comparing the very beginning of your race. You know, there are so many years to come, so many peaks and plateaus that everyone's career will naturally go through. No one's career is always going to be on the up and up. There will will be times where they're not motivated, where you get made redundant, where the culture and the environment shifts.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

You are comparing the very beginning of your race. You know, there are so many years to come, so many peaks and plateaus that everyone's career will naturally go through. No one's career is always going to be on the up and up. There will will be times where they're not motivated, where you get made redundant, where the culture and the environment shifts.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

But what we're doing is we're looking at what possibly only the first 10 years maximum of our career and thinking this defines the entire race. This defines all of my circumstances from here until I retire.

The Psychology of your 20s
279. The psychology of career jealousy

But what we're doing is we're looking at what possibly only the first 10 years maximum of our career and thinking this defines the entire race. This defines all of my circumstances from here until I retire.