Daydreaming is a gateway to comparison bias and a thief of fulfillment. There are many stories and scientific data to prove this point, but as an artist, development specialist, and entrepreneur, I can assert this statement with full fire in my chest because I have gone through it, have friends and colleagues who have gone through it, and well-known great individuals who have experienced it. It's no secret; it's just facts. It almost seems like daydreaming and negative comparison bias are necessary avenues that must be conquered on the path to greatness.

For those wondering what comparison bias is, social comparison bias is the tendency to have feelings of dislike and competitiveness with someone seen as physically, socially, or mentally better than oneself. Social comparison bias, or social comparison theory, is the idea that individuals determine their own worth based on how they compare to others.

Comparison doesn't always mean negative. Positive social bias exists as well. For example, as an artist, I can study famous artists like Picasso or Basquiat for tendencies of context, concepts, execution, ideation, scale, attention to detail, and color combinations based on emotional color charts to gain inspiration and insight into how they achieved greatness in their time and use their systems as a blueprint for my success. Negative social bias will rearrange my thought process and internally compete with them, allowing idiocy to drive my mindset instead of appreciation for their greatness.

The issue with this competitive bias is that at every turn of the head into a different direction reveals additional expressions of greatness by other great people operating in their gifts and sharing them with the world.

It's almost like people who struggle with social comparison bias are punished with the consistency of exposure to other great people, exposing the truth that the time that could be spent mastering their craft and becoming great is actually being spent stuck in darkness behind the starting line.

One of the best medications for social comparison bias is to shut up and START creating. The creative expression of your gift, infused with studying frameworks and developing a growth mindset, will contribute to a level of achievement beyond your wildest dreams. Your focus will change, your determination will elevate, your confidence will evolve, your skills will improve, your work will be more attractive to others, your networks will expand, and your comparison bias will transform into camaraderie and great peer connection.

So START. You can never achieve anything behind the start line besides stretching and warm-ups. The true magic happens once you build the confidence to step up to the line and get in position to start!