Perspective Podcast | Fuel For Your Mind & Creative Grind

Run Your Own Race & Avoid the Comparison Trap “Never compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” – Jon Acuff from his book Start. I often allowed comparison to paralyze me from becoming the person I’m supposed to become. Much of that comparison stems from the social world of the internet. I have a love/hate relationship with social media. I feel fortunate enough to know how life worked before it, as well as experience the rise of it. In high school, I was on the early days of MySpace and felt the dopamine rush that notifications give you. When I graduated in 2006, I joined the new wave of Facebook. You actually needed a college email to get access, long before your parents and grandparents were on that shit. In 2013, I joined Instagram. In 2o14, I shifted to using it as a business portfolio. That’s when my life as a creative drastically changed, as I started to take my craft and message more seriously. The Beautiful Toxicity of Social Media Social media is a huge blessing in my life. It gives me con