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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 14280" data-attributes="member: 2672">It is also the danger of people trying to compare themselves to others and therefore dismissing their own achievements as being not as good/not as relevant as other people they know.I use this example time and time again - it actually dates back from 2007-8!!I interviewed two candidates on the same day. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. Both asked the same question about what's a major challenge they faced. The morning person talks about running the London marathon. The person in the afternoon talked about running a 5k charity run.EVERYONE assumes the marathon runner had the best answer.They didn't - because the individual was already a long distance runner, they loved running, they were built to run, they didn't really have to do much more than up their running amount, which they didn't really mind doing.In comparison the person in the afternoon said they hated running. They were unfit, they had to change their diet, they had to go to a gym (which they had never been in one). The reason why they were running a 5k was because they knew everyone would give them more money as the thought of them running was almost funny. But they did it....I am sure the marathon runner had better challenges in their life they could have mentioned, they just went with the &quot;outcome&quot; that they thought was more impressive, rather than thinking about which journey to that outcome would have been more impressive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 14280, member: 2672"] It is also the danger of people trying to compare themselves to others and therefore dismissing their own achievements as being not as good/not as relevant as other people they know. I use this example time and time again - it actually dates back from 2007-8!! I interviewed two candidates on the same day. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. Both asked the same question about what's a major challenge they faced. The morning person talks about running the London marathon. The person in the afternoon talked about running a 5k charity run. EVERYONE assumes the marathon runner had the best answer. They didn't - because the individual was already a long distance runner, they loved running, they were built to run, they didn't really have to do much more than up their running amount, which they didn't really mind doing. In comparison the person in the afternoon said they hated running. They were unfit, they had to change their diet, they had to go to a gym (which they had never been in one). The reason why they were running a 5k was because they knew everyone would give them more money as the thought of them running was almost funny. But they did it.... I am sure the marathon runner had better challenges in their life they could have mentioned, they just went with the "outcome" that they thought was more impressive, rather than thinking about which journey to that outcome would have been more impressive. [/QUOTE]

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