The “but I am doing better than him” fallacy

   Last week I was reading an article about a company.That company has a product which at some point in the past had twelve million subscribers.This year though the product lost almost two million subscribers.So there were a lot of comments about whats wrong with the product but one comment was different.The person that wrote it stated that even though there was a loss of subscribers everything is fine because the company is still ahead of the competition.

   While that statement has some logic behind it,it also fails on so many levels.It is like writing a test with an aim for a grade of 20 getting 18 and saying well its ok the other guy got 17.It sounds a bit ridiculous and in my opinion it is but hold on.In the business world each company has short and long term goals and I dont think that any company has the lose customers goal.Similarly each person has personal goals that determine his life improvement.Those goals vary greatly from person to person but I doubt failure on something is one of them.

   Yet as the statement at the first paragraph shows many people choose to see what others do instead of seeing their own weaknesses.To be honest this is not something weird,it is all about human nature after all.It is obvious that this kind of behavior is the easiest way of handling things and guess what we  are supposed to choose the easy way always.Everything in society leads people to judge by what others do too.But as you may have guessed this way of thinking is the opposite of the one who leads to success because it prevents self improvement in a way.

   Finally I must say the thing that is implied from the rest of the post.That in my opinion you should not care about whatever someone else does except from situation that someone hurts you.Pick some goals,try to do them.If you achieve each goal,you will be fine.If you don't,you wont be fine but it wont be the end of the world.You will have to see what went wrong and try harder.Others dont matter that way but what you do does and it is always manageable.