“Drawing inspiration from Steve Jobs — or from anyone else you admire — studying them, and learning from them, now those are different matters,” Pallotta writes. “But all too often we conflate admiration and comparison. They’re two completely different things. One is smart, the other debilitating.”
Pallotta writes, “Such comparisons spiral you into depression. They demotivate you, demoralize you, and generally suck every last bit of enthusiasm and aliveness out of you, so that you go into your next meeting or activity unable to contribute an ounce of energy to the room. How could you? You just annihilated your spirit… The last way you will ever get to play in a game remotely like the one your icons play in is by comparing yourself with them.”
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