The only person you should ever compare yourself to is the person who you were yesterday.

My life got 1000% better when i stoped comparing to other people ...

I'm surprised this video didn't touch on school bullying. Being bullied myself had such a huge impact on my self esteem and confidence into adulthood. It's a constant uphill struggle that never really goes away.

My low self-esteem stems from the fact that I feel like no one really likes me, nor cares about me. It's always me who has to make a conscious effort to get people to spend time with me. I'm usually polite, but people instantly judge me when I have a small outburst of anger or frustration, whereas others can somehow behave like jerks very often and get away with it.

This art form depicts the human population very well. We're all blockheads.

If you're reading this, here's some love ❤ in case you need it

I don't give a shit about achievements, impressing people or possession. My problem is that I was severely abused as a kid. Not only did I get regular beatings but my parents never really gave me the emotional support or guidance. I also was shamed and punished a lot in school growing up by bully teachers (who the fuck bullies small kids?). All this snowballs and you grow up BECOMING the shame. You have a warped image of who you are. My whole adult life has been a struggle to try and reverse all the physical and emotional abuse. I also had shitty friends, who, I think I unconsciously gravitated towards because they were a lot like me. So, here I am at 36 and been alone my whole adult life. No family or friends. I do ok for myself, I got a biology degree, work at a nature preserve, have my own apartment etc. I did what I could to survive. But I don't really live or feel good about myself inside. It feels like there's this huge chunk missing in life. I have a lot of feelings of deep sadness, shame, loneliness and fear. But I just stuff it down to get through the day. I try extremely hard to live somewhat of a normal life but it is a constant battle. I know others from abusive backgrounds who become alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, etc, or even kill themselves. I could easily do the same but I feel like I have a much higher pain threshold than some people. I had a best friend who had a similar life as me and he's an alcoholic and homeless now. I can't help him I have to watch my own ass. Thoughts of suicide come and go because of the frustration and loneliness. But I feel like i have suffered so much I deserve to feel good and have nice things one day. I already spent time on the streets and even in jail. I just don't understand people who have had the supportive family and still act like their lives are shitty. No matter how logical I feel, no matter what I obtain, etc, it doesn't change the pain from the abuse and shaming I have experienced and that is the hardest and most frustrating thing. I really don't know how I manage to live. If you an adult survivor of abuse you will understand.

SHOUT OUT TO THE ANIMATION ARTIST. This is so well done. I really enjoy this!

School of Life, you always seem to know what I'm feeling.

I suffered a mental break down today at work. All due to extremly low self esteem.. This video sums it up My dad - a "from zero to hero" millionaire My friends - all achieving at least something Me - not able to do anything with my life except for rolling in agony of self hatred Starting group therapy this Friday. Hope it works

I get teary-eyed when he mentions that the only way to really change these things is to go in your own mind and reprogram your brain acknowledge your past and fix it. It just makes me credibly happy that we can do this to ourselves

That's why therapy is so important for some.

I don't know if the audience noticed this, but Alain de Botton (one of the founder of The School of Life and the official voice of the channel) describes his case in minute 1:53. He decided to follow philosophy and humanities, instead of keeping the million business (Global Asset Management) of his father Gilbert de Botton. Maybe it was a difficult decision for him (emotionally more than financially) and MAYBE his father didn't approved that decision. Maybe that's why we see a lot of videos about the emotions, the meaning of success, status anxiety and the final purpose of rich people. Alain De Botton is projecting part of himself in condensed videos. He's sharing us part of his sufferings and his subjective life in form of knowledge (mainly philosophical and psychological). In terms of Schopenhauer, I would say he's a universal man (he understands the complexity of feelings and the condition of humankind). Thanks for your ambitious project, De Botton and The School of Life! Keep going!

If success to you is money, power, popularity, and adoration then you will never truly have lasting self worth. These things are fleeting and superficial, and placing your self worth in them is a setup for tragedy when they go away. True self worth lies in several things 1. Accurate self insight (the ability to know if you really are achieving the following things and not just pretending you are) 2. Empathy 3. Compassion 4. Willingness to listen (so you know what the people you care about want and need) 5. Humility 6. Courage to stand up to those that would hurt others (emotionally or psychologically mostly, but physically if possible) 7. Loyalty 8. Forgiving nature 9. Ability to admit when wrong and genuinely apologize for it If you are striving to achieve these things in earnest, keep it up! -Reputations are what people think you are. Dwelling on your reputation is simply ego and arrogance. True self worth based on the above criteria, evaluated internally cannot be taken from you

The problem is that as humans we have a tendency to look at what others do. Too much emphasis is placed on what a person have done or accomplished and what society says is achievements. We should not be placed in the same categories as others, because we are all different. So the catechist is to be reflective towards loving and accepting ones self. Love yourself unconditionally. Its okay to be imperfect in this imperfect world. Stop looking for others to validate us. Only you can make yourself happy in this crazy world. Nurturing yourself is vital. Put yourself first before others, not in a selfish way, but in a nurturing way; improve positively upon yourself. Positive human beings reflect both positive energy and self esteem. Just my opinion.

" Comparison is the thief of all joy "

Low self esteem = extreme self-consciousness = overdeveloped superego = an overcritical (perfectionist) parent

Ok NOW will you get in the robot, Shinji?

Its odd to be social. Growing-up I never had an idol, someone to look up to, role-model. I never compare myself. Its odd because so many others have this race going on. When someone compliments or puts me down, I don't really know how to respond. I don't care about who I am or who you are. To be nothing is comforting.

my parents' love felt very conditional. when i had a fever as a baby my mom snapped and yelled at me because my crying interrupted her sleep. my mom would withdraw her love like this whenever I would act slightly out of line, whenever i would express any amount of anger or sadness, or when i didnt live up to her unreachable standards. what kind of a parent does that? and what kind of a person stands by and lets it happen? other people in my family never stood up to her when it mattered. my childhood gave me a shit ton of anxiety, neuroticism and self esteem issues to deal with. and it made me obsessed with validation from other people. money. sex. status. external approval. some days even talking to people feels impossible because my fear of not being liked is oftentimes worse than my fear of death. when other people dont like me it feels like the end of the world. because when i was a kid, not getting approval from my parents did mean the end of my world. and sometimes i take my inner hate out on other people. ironically i've been a parasite to the actual good people in my life. i can't trust my instincts anymore. it feels like i was robbed of living a happy life, but i'm on the journey of self improvement now. im learning to love myself and love others and be the parent to myself that i never had. ive taken shrooms, ive taken lsd and i have done a lot of thinking about my life. and i know what enlightenment feels like now. self improvement is a process. all we have to do is hold on

understanding psychology is comforting and frightening

I'm surprised there was no mention of how the statuses of different siblings was not brought up.

dude, I don't know if you guys will ever read this, but thanks to your videos I've got learn more in the last two days, than in the las twenty seven years of my life. My soul has healed so much, thanks to the philosophical endeavors engaged by you. Heart on hand: Thank you guys, please keep going. Now I will go ahead and ask you guys to add the work of Hannah Arendt to the "Politic Theory" playlist, or philosophy, what ever accrues by de diversity of the topic. The reason I think she is to be amongst such distinguished names is because she points out brightly where the constitutionalists and totalitarians notoriously clash. I'd love to collaborate in the subject, I have a couple of insights of where they are dialectically bonded, I mean in the Heggelian way, of course there should be at least another dozen of authors that should be thrown in, there'll be a time for it. Good vibes.

1. My dad has not done anything amazing, my family is an average middle class one 2. I'm not aware of any of my high school classmates, or anyone else I know, having done anything amazing. I'm ahead of a lot of them just by the fact I can afford to live alone. 3. Though my parents emphasized success in school, I never had reason to worry their love was dependent on those outcomes. And yet 0:42 describes me perfectly. I feel like I have wasted my potential and I sometimes feel convinced I haven't earned the right to even exist. So where does that come from then?

Every one is unique, therefore we all should esteem ourselves that we are unique individuals. However, We should not esteem ourselves so much that we accidentally,without knowing it, 'cross the borders' of self-esteem and occur in Egoism or the worst - Narcissism.

I have high self esteem. My mom gives me unconditional love and she makes Me feel like I can do anything.

The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman was a life-changing book for me. One of the topics it covers is self-esteem and this passage in particular changed my mindset like nothing else... “Or consider the fraught topic of self-esteem. We tend to assume that having high self-esteem is a good thing, but some psychologists have long suspected that there might be something wrong with the whole notion - because it rests on the assumption of a unitary, easily identifiable self. Setting out to give your ‘self’ one universal positive rating may in fact be deeply perilous. The problem lies in the fact that you’re getting into the self-rating game at all; implicitly, you’re assuming that you are a single self that can be given a universal grade."

"every time someone who went to school was does better, a small part of us will die" I don't know why exactly, but that made me LOL.

I'm afraid I can't agree with this wholly. I get the vibe that this video's script was produced by somebody who indeed falls under the "underachiever versus parents" to "requiring parents' approval" category. That isn't the be-all and end-all. Not only has my dad always been working class, but he also never gave a shit about me. As a child I never felt there was any reason to strive for success since I had nobody to show my achievements to. He simply never paid attention, and my mother wasn't much better. So, who did I have to turn to? The few friends I had, I suppose. They did happen to receive their parents' praise and get better grades, and I compared myself to them, thus lowering my self-esteem. There is no exact science to this. Low self-esteem can occur at both ends of the spectrum, and any point in-between.

"The single greatest determinate of how much you will esteem yourself is how you compare with your same sex parent." What if I have never had a same sex parent. I'm an 18 year old guy who has never had a father. What now?

Self Esteem is the CORE of self confidence.

I adore how the second word in the name of this channel is what causes 75% of low self-esteem effects.

Self Esteem has proven to be one of the most challenging things for me to build. I'm not saying that it is utterly dismal, but considering all that is my life, I should be much more confident in myself. Ironically, I think that it is low self esteem that has been the biggest cause of my more recent failings. Seems like a bit of a vicious cycle. Anyway, internet. Thank you for letting me confide in you.

Honestly, these 5-10 minute videos have helped me more than years of therapy sessions. I don't know how I should feel about that, but... Thank you.

If you feel like you're not enough, just remember that the only one person in love who is ever gonna care about what you do is yourself. If you come to terms with who you are and realize the real life limitations you just happened to be born into, it'll be easier to love yourself

"Never quite trusting that they really deserve to exist" *I'm wheezing why is this ME*

I still don't understand what I need to do to fix my low self esteem

being the youngest of four in my family with all talented achieving siblings, I was largely ignored in all honesty growing up. But my imagination and ability to be by myself has carried me so far that I don't regret things like I used to related to my childhood. Excellent video. love "school of life" so much.

'Knowing they once mattered immeasurably'. That's something we never think about, how much joy we brought to our parents getting raised.

I just recently read a quote that instantly boosted my self esteem. It said, "you were born to be real, not perfect". (read that again!) since most of us deal with the inner conflict of being enough vs. perfect, this quote made me realise that if we were born to be real, that means we were meant to have our own 'realities' obviously. However, since everyone has a different 'reality' then we ought to not just celebrate and be entitled to it but also showcase our version of reality so that someone else could get inspiration from it..therefore, ur realities also matter, so does your struggle and hardships. they're not to be felt ashamed of, but a stepping stone to show someone else how its managed. This thought is so liberating!

This channel is literally therapy for me. Thanks guys... I really mean it, you guys changed the way I looked at things and truly made me have a sense of where I'm going or what and why I'm feeling certain things. Simply thanks.

The school of life is such a change of pace to most media outlets. The pessimissm it brings really is truth and helps much more than all this feel-good motivational shit we see in most places.

I really like this art style.

i discovered this channel today and i went through a bunch of videos about confidence and self esteem and this one definitely resonated with me the most.... those 3 factors are now clearly obvious to me as the root cause of my lack of self confidence and self esteem... while my parents did shower me with unconditional love... ever since i moved away in pursuit of a better life in another country, they have been constantly (albeit probably inadvertantly) pressuring me about finding a good paying job and "settling down" or "becoming financially stable" along with all the other hardships that moving to another country and completely changing careers put so much pressure on me i link finding financial success with my self worth which is clearly counter productive because confidence is a key factor in becoming financially successful especially if doing a self taught career. I don't know how to break the chain. i don't know how to bypass this feeling.

Spot-on! You confirmed 100% what I always thought and felt about self esteem, while handing out some very important pieces to complete the "jigsaw puzzle". . You are addressing this very important issue the exact right way! Finally! Thanks for that! And yes: I did throw that class reunion invitation (from long ago)straight to the trash and felt good about it.

So... My father has never really amounted to much. For much of my childhood, he was homeless, in fact. I was raised primarily by my mother, who gave me unconditional love, no matter how well I did in school, but every father figure I've had has never quite been happy about my achievements. I would consider myself to have low self esteem, I don't think I'm good enough for any woman, even if they tell me that they love me, or how good of a person I am. I'm confused at why this is, as I was and am so loved by my mother.

I think the problem with having low self esteem is that people don't respect us if we can't respect ourselves. The disinterest that people show just makes us question our self worth even more, which starts the whole vicious cycle again. So the important thing is to practise loving ourselves a bit more every day, which is what I'm trying to do, to convince myself that I am as worthy a human as anyone else. Being selfish is actually essential to the well being of people with low self esteem, but too many people do it too well, often at the expense of someone else's happiness, even if happiness is not mutually exclusive most of the time.

I’m 30 and I’m still trying to around what feeds well in my mind. It’s all about positive thoughts.

School of Life: Your videos have changed my outlook on many things. It's really excellent to see these videos and their perspectives, even on things I am already familiar with like the literature videos you make. Thank you so much for them. They have really improved my life, at a time when I am dealing with a lot of self doubt and depression, these videos offer me a way to feel as though I am learning something. And, even in a small way, changing my perspective.

Your videos are like consulting the oracle.☺ Could you please do one on Yin and Yang?

I think that self-esteem is about protecting yourself from your own negative thoughts. Thanks for this video, It helps me to understand myself better.

If Evangelion has taught me anything, it's that you're not perfect, but you need to come to terms with those flaws if you ever want to love yourself.

Tracing back the roots of all my adult life problems, only thing in the end i realised is that I had a terrible childhood, I grew up with lack of affection, had a judgmental mother and relatives who colour shamed me, which totally ruined my self esteem. now as an adult I struggle a lot with self hatred and crippling social anxiety.

comparing oneself to anyone only has two results, “i am worse than this person” or, more frighteningly, “i am better than this person” while in this comment section, i noticed that a good majority believed that to build one’s self esteem, one must compare themselves to another, whether it be a past version of themselves, or someone else entirely. to compare oneself in a better light than the other, builds up not good self-esteem, but pride. it feels a lot better than its negative counterpart, but is wrong nonetheless. to compare oneself in a worse light than the other, doesn’t only take one’s self esteem down a bracket, but also one’s self worth. in short, all comparison is bad. this video stabs at that idea here and there, especially regarding the peer groups and parental income theory, but never quite 100% addresses comparison and its faults. now moving on to the past self aspect of comparison, which i find this to be foolish in its entirety, mostly because of comparison’s inherit nature, but also because not everyone’s past self is consistently worse than their present self. so please, love yourself for who you are, not who you are according to a homeless man or jeff bezos.

My self esteem issues all stem from childhood trauma I was neglected, physically abused and humiliated for other peoples enjoyment not only at home but by other relatives, people and in school, I know there are some of you who can relate, i believe you, I believe in you, I love you, it’s hard to be us to be the one left out, it’s hard to feel like you’ve never been human but you are, you can be made to feel complete you are worthy of love and compassion, I love you all.

I don’t know why watching this made me cry hit a sensitive spot

Love the art!

My parents said something to me that I'll never forget. You can be anything and do anything as long as you're happy and not taking at the expense of others, then we really don't mind what you do with your life. For me, this removed a lot of pressure. There was and is nothing wrong with living modestly at all. They didn't care if I did better or worse that them, all that mattered to them was that I was happy, and that's all that should matter to anyone. You're allowed to do only what's most comfortable to you, if it makes you happy. I do struggle a little with the peer side, but not because I think they are better or worse than me. I don't care if someone I know is rich or poor, it's entirely based on if I can really connect with them, which has proven the need to step out of that comfort zone a little at times.

so this is why i always ask my friends on what is the job of their parents and how did their parents treated them when they were young. because this is how i compare my self-esteem to them. now i realize that i'm on the right track and this is why i don't care anymore on what other people say to me. thank you for this. also your animator is excellent in his work, cheers to him!

Those who have overly high self esteem have superiority complex.

this doesn't seem to apply for me. my parents are nothing (really, they have no profession and work for others). my friends... they all achieved less than me, i was the only one to get into med school. my childhood instead... i dont know if it was more of unconditional love or conditional love. yet i hate my self. and i think the reason is society and their standards. why didnt you talk about that? thanks. as always amazing video

I self-loathed myself from childhood to mid teen, I have a low esteem that I do not look at people when passing the hallway, like literally I face to the window or somewhere far away people faces because I felt like they are judging me on the way I look. Slowly I accepted who I am and I can walk with my face straight ahead. And all the negativity I was overthinking on my head led me to good results and achievements when I turned it into positive thoughts.

I think it's important to understand who we truly are and what we want out of life and set our goals around that understanding. I ignored it when I'd heard about it in school for the most part but having "SMART" goals and recording our daily progress towards them might be an effective way to maintain a sense of self-esteem

My mom never loved me and she abandoned me for her friends. And when I showed her my wife and kids she acted like a nanny goat. And don't want to see her grandkids. (This Really Happened).

This is a gross over simplification of a very complicated psychological problem that often arises from a much deeper level than just "what did our parents do for a living" or how much love you received as a child. I don't agree with this video.

SOL is a gift that just keeps on giving. Thank you for this.

This video is simply worth so much for someone that looses easily meaning when difficult situations come around. Thanks School of Life ♥️

Love these videos, makes me think in a different way.

“Desperately trying to put out the raging fires of self-hatred” Bruh

Why in the world you are such a good freaking channel to watch for HOURS!!!??? I love you The School of Life, you make nearly every day of my life since four months ago...

The scriptwriter of these videos is a Genius!

The animation is GOLD! 😂😂😂

I had a shitty childhoolod, I am a high school dropout, my parents always underestimated my achievements, everytime I did bad they told me I could've done better, and everytime I did good they used it as proof that I can do better, and that I should put more effort into my life. At age 17 I was in the worst moments of my life, constantly depressed and anxious, every day I would wake up feeling a hole in my gut, and I would drag myself to highschool feeling like life was hell. One day I dropped out of school, my parents were shocked and blamed me for it, my answer was simple, "idgaf what you think, if you want to kick me out of the house do so, from now on I'm gonna focus on improving my self, my life, how I feel about myself, I want to love myself, I don't want to hear no more bullshit from disturbed people no more, and I'm goint to succceed." I studied NLP, linguistics, how beliefs work, neural myelination, meditation, I changed my belief of failure for feedback, that everything in life is a step towards my goal of feeling adequate, good, snug in myself, comfortable in my own skin. When people came to bullshit me, I would turn around and leave for a walk. Today I feel like a success. Im not the fittest, Im not the most attractive, but I feel like I achieved my goal in life, and everything from now on is surplus. I laugh, I have stopped searching for a fix to my problems, cos I feel like I don't have any no more, just challenges that are fun to overcome. I don't feel like anyone is above or below me, I think that from the president of the USA to that bum in the corner, we are all people in this universe we don't fully understand. I am happy. One day I told myself "How should I live life so that if I have to live for eternity I would have a good time?" And I constructed my life around that idea.

as a child, well, i still am a child in a way being 16, i never had any role models or celebrity comparison points. sure, i would compare myself to my classmates occasionally, but for the most part, i never saw myself as competitive. but for some reason, my self esteem has recently been a little worse for wear. while watching this video, i remembered that my mother and step father would not love me or my step brother if we had not preformed well in school, done our chores, or done anything they wanted us to really. beginning middle school, i lost all of my friends, and my grades slipped a lot in a very short amount of time, and though depression at 11 was brutal, i came out more confident, without knowing exactly why. now i realize it’s because i let go of those expectations people, including myself, thrust upon me. it’s been a three, going on four, year journey of being depressed on and off, but i feel i’ve learned so much and really become my best self. however, i’ve spent the last couple months of quarantine with those emotionally abusive parents, and on top of that i’m going to move to africa, start the IB program, and make my first short film within the next few weeks. all of this is really stressful, and my self esteem has been realllllly low, and now i understand why. those expectations my parents have, and that i have for myself, are starting to creep back in. this video helped me a lot, but i still have work to do if i’m ever going to love myself the right way again. thank you.

I am in deep love with this channel. My goodness, what a gem I find these videos to be.

Finally letting go of shame, conditionality and humiliation. Vincero!

Dad: degree in mechanical engineering and a MBA, both full ride scholarships Me: just finishing my undergrad degree in biology after 8 years, lots of debt, no job offers.....

this channel is answering to so many questions i've been asking myself for so long. Thank you!

Doesn't make sense to me, I've had low esteem my whole life, this didn't explain it at all.

unconditional love is the most overrated and damaging thing that anyone could get. The problem is where your parents and peers choose to put the conditions.

I have watched many SOL videos, but I realise not many have had an impact on my outlook and way of life like this one.

If I ever get a child I will give him/her all the love they can get from the beginning. I will always make them feel like number one so that they don't have to struggle with questioning their self worth through their whole life. I will literally do everything my parents didnt do My mom - A banker, work always comes first, husband second, children third. Left her kids almost dying in pneumonia because she had to work that day. My dad - Nothing is ever good enough, struggling with his own self-esteem. You're only good in his eyes when you've done hard physical job, otherwise you're trash.

Would you say Facebook's main utility is an attempt to gain self esteem/confidence through comparing yourself with your "peers"?

The great prophet of post-modern society speaks again. thanks for your videos. keep it up

This video teaches us how important it is to respect ourselves and realize who we truly are.It is high time that we stop comparing ourselves with others and start treating ourselves with more love and compassion. Finding inner peace and happiness is much more important than having good grades,good jobs and a luxurious lifestyle.We must learn to like ourselves,take decisions on our own and explore the natural wonders of life.We must be ready to take challenges in life,try to gain more knowledge without fear of competition and losing out on things.These factors are critical to our overall growth and development not only as a professional but also a human being.We must learn that having the best jobs,cars and house wont give us satisfaction and eternal happiness.We must realize our identify,our upbringing and what our purpose is.We can be content with the smallest of things in life. The happiest and most motivated person may not be the most wealthy or powerful.They are confident and motivated in life as they are able to achieve their realistic and short term goals. Self-esteem is our idea of our own basic worth, and is often rooted in our childhood when our sense of value was associated with the positive regards of others, or linked with our achievements. As we move into adulthood, we may accomplish much yet feel dissatisfied because our self-esteem still depends on our next success, or failure. Life seems like a treadmill, lacking in real excitement or purpose. People with high self esteem are always confident,positive minded and motivated in life.They always find positivity even in the darkest of times.“We need to love ourselves in order to feel good about who we are. This love is called self-esteem. Self-respect is the gateway to self-esteem. When we make good choices in life to do what is right over what is easy, over that which only makes us look good, we gain self-respect… When we don’t make the right choice, its because we are not full and complete in ourselves. We are either giving in to a body impulse or an ego drive. A body impulse can be overeating or sleeping in excess. An ego drive can run the gambit from making a joke at someone’s expense to working to buy a car that you cannot afford. And what happens when we do this? We get angry at ourselves… Our respect for ourselves, in short, determines the amount of respect we crave from others and our need to push for control and dominance. We all give in to our body and our ego sometimes. But depending on how frequently and recently we did that, depending on the overall proportion of giving in to taking charge, that is the key to our response to outside conflict… When we are in a situation where we feel disrespected , it causes a negative response because the outside world, through our ego, is our only source of psychological support or nourishment. The more a person is in control of himself, the greater his self-respect and the higher his self-esteem. And vice versa.” Good choices leading to self-respect leading to positive self-esteem is a path worth following. And I don’t think any self-respecting social scientist would disagree with the wisdom of making good choices. But there is still room to discuss what constitutes making the right choices.

Those principles also play a BIG role in the background and outbreak of Narcissistic and Borderline personality disorders. I knew several inhuman beings with those "blessings" and all of them had same background and circumstances as was stated in the video.

My self-esteem is just like my group of friends non-existent

My dad is good hearted and mediocore I would say. It seem to me as a harsh thing to say, though. It's true that I have a real problem with accepting his way of life. But I don't know to what extent does it backlash to my self-esteem. Guess I'm fine with saying I want to live a better life. As I'm now thinking about it, i'm doing many things I think my dad wouldn't. Living abroad, changing jobs for sake of finding a fullfilling one, learning ways to live my life rather than surviving. I don't know who I am nor what to do but so none else does. Isn't it about how you deal with it? We can keep distracting ourselves or face fact that we have nothing more than a faint idea about anything at all. What about not comparing yourself to others? Friends, parents, the peer group. If you feel like the unique snow flake, be that way, act that way. If you feel like a part of a group, be that way, act that way.

Can we actually appreciate the creativity level of animation in this video.

My mom is the kind who constantly compares with others - others husbands, others kids. I believe both my dad and me suffer from this. No matter what we achieve or do is never enough for her or the pleasure is so short lived. She never realizes that. Her life is rotating around other people. I can't change her but I ll make sure I don't repeat the same ever.

Killing it again boys! Loved this animation style.

i really like this way of animating it. please send my regards to the animators and ask for more like these square-ish animations

I received unconditional love from my parents, managed to achieve decent financial success, and am in the upper ranks of my peer group and feel like I’m eternally chasing approval

Seriously, thank you for your videos. They always bring a smile to my face and peace to my heart and mind. Thank you.

I used to struggle with self-esteem really badly. I managed to overcome it by pouring a few teaspoons of bleach into my cereal everyday. It made the cereal taste better and it made me feel happy. I highly recommend trying this if you're struggling with self-esteem.

How does one get a chance to animate for The School of Life?

this is scarily true in my case, with parents just showing mild appreciation when I got good grades, otherwise I was only chastised for not getting results.

Researching your roots and staying rooted in your culture helps! When I learned about the Celtic culture and what they stood for, that helped me jump in to my warrior mindset!

interesting style of animation, which for some reason, in the absence of norm, i quite enjoyed it! thanks once again SOL

it makes me genuinely happy to see my friends doing well in life. (good jobs, houses, families, etc)... what does this mean?