Unless you are going to live out in the wilderness making your own food, you need to compare yourself to others.

Every job that you apply for compares you to others.

Your boss compares you to others to decide if you get a promotion or get fired.

Start your own business?  The customers compare what you offer to others.

Follow your creative passion?  Your success is dictated by what others think.  There are millions of people making art that people may like instead.

"You can't worry so much about money!"  I can't?  Well apartments set rent based on what others can pay.  Stores set prices based on what others can pay.  Your quality of life is directly tied to how well others do. 

Want to date someone?  They are comparing you to other options.

Want friends?  Same thing.

Every aspect of life is a giant competition and I'm sick of advice that tells you to close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, and pretend that life is different than it is.  

You know what happens when you compare yourself to you from yesterday?  Everyone else outpaces you.  Every day you fall behind, because you're patting yourself on the back for moving up from number 100,000,002 in whatever category you are talking about to number 100,000,001 while other people are giving up and moving on to something else or pushing harder to try and match other's progress.  Then, one day, you will inevitably have to compare yourself to others and you will find out that you are truly pathetic, but now it's too late because you spent all of your prime years not comparing yourself to others.

It pisses me off when people say that crap and get a ton of support for it.  I'm so sick of everything, tbh.