The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Step Out of the Comparison Trap and Into Deep inner Power
True confidence isn’t fueled by being better than others. It’s rooted in being faithful to your own personal path.
And yet, the brain is naturally wired for comparison. Social Comparison Theory, pioneered by psychologist Leon Festinger, reveals that humans instinctively evaluate themselves against others to understand their worth.
The key is not to eliminate comparison completely — that’s impossible. The mission is to transform it: from a force that diminishes you to one that reminds you of your uniqueness, your sovereignty, your inner wholeness.
Here’s the deeper insight:
You are not behind. You are not late. You are not missing anything.
Your journey is unfolding with exquisite precision — training you, strengthening you, preparing you for glories, bravery and fortune that you cannot yet see.
The masters of life don’t sprint faster on someone else’s race track — they walk slowly, bravely, joyfully, on their own. They run their own race.
This is what my latest book The Wealth Money Can’t Buy is all about. Real wealth versus fake success. True winning versus spending your life climbing a mountain, only to find out at the end that it was the wrong one. You can order it now by clicking here.
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The personal growth path is almost a series of little deaths. Who you can be tomorrow means you almost have to experience a death of who you were yesterday, a little death. And to get to who you can be a month from now, who you were a year from now, must experience a little death so you can keep moving forward. And that's why personal development and leadership and evolving into your greatest self and hand crafting your richest life is not for the faint of heart. And that's why I really believe you are heroic. There are a lot of people on the planet who are playing victim, giving away their power. "I can't do this", "I can't launch a business", "I can't find true love", "I can't get really healthy", "I can't get financially free", and they're giving away their power. Victims are all about CBE, Complaint, Blame, and Excuses. I want you to make the leap from victimhood to leadership. Leaders are all about APR, Absolute Personal Responsibility. And I want you to let go of excuses. And I want you to start today. And I want you to start small. It's like a little kid. The little kid is learning to walk, stumbles, tries, stumbles, cries, says, "I want to stop. I don't like this." But steadily through daily practice, the child gets up and takes the next step and then the next step and the next step and The more the child practices, the more the neuroplasticity of the human brain takes over and builds a pathway, and the more the child continues to do this, the more fluidity and fluency the child gets with the practice of walking, when eventually the child runs, and then eventually the child sprints. And you are like that. But it all starts with what you do each day.