12 Rules for schools – Rule 4 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
This is the fourth in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. All the posts in this series are collected here. This is not intended as an accurate summary of Peterson’s views, it is merely what I reckon. The idea that we should only compare ourselves against a personal yardstick is good advice. As Max Ehrmann says in Disiderata, "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself." Who wants to be vain or bitter? But, as with much good advice, [...]