To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others:

Every person has a different story to tell. Every human faced many challenges from birth. Dean Furness is also an average person. He is a data and analytics professional. But in 2011, he faced the most difficult challenge in his life. It was a horrible accident. After that he got paraplegic and he can not use his legs. But after several years of hard work, he became a wheelchair athlete in Chicago and Boston Marathons. He defines personal average like this,

"I think we should look at that a little differently. That personal average is just that; it's something very personal, it's for you, and I think if you focus on that and start to build that, you can really start to accomplish some amazing things"

-Dean Furness-

His biggest advice is to overcome a challenge, stop comparing yourself with others. If we think about ourselves, we always are afraid to face challenges. Comparing everyone and everything is an average thing for a human. It is useful sometimes. But if you sit and think about your past, when you compare yourself with another, you always get depressed. Sometimes you compare your decisions with another person and give up on your idea. After that, you admit another person's decision. But sometimes your decision might be better than the other person's decision. Sometimes it might be better than everybody.

For example, from the beginning, humans compare their educational skills with others and get depressed. Because of that, now the education system is more complicated than in the past. We think it is for the best, but because of that human behavior has changed and it getting similar to robots.

Children do not have their childhood; parents do not have time to spend with their kids. Because of it, human relationships get complicated. All of this happens because of comparing habits. Facing challenges and comparing each other is necessary to build up your skills, but we do not need to adict to that habit. Every person is unique from another and we should prude who we are and what we going to be.

Sachini Alahakoon

(Undergraduate)

15-10-2022