To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others | Dean Furness | TED Talk

Wheelchair athlete Dean Furness shares a powerful new mindset he discovered in his TED Talk “To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others.” When you stop comparing yourself to others, you can accomplish great things, says Furness. He shares his own experience of breaking his back and becoming paralyzed, which forced him to reevaluate how he measured his productivity and goals. In this talk on motivation and professional development, Furness says we should focus on our own ‚Äúpersonal average;” in doing so, we can overcome challenges with greater resilience.