Your Envy Is Trying to Tell You Something

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Very often, when you feel a beep of envy, it's because there's a fragment of your true ambition and your true self in the life of another person. And rather than going, "Oh, I must run away from it." go, "No, this is a clue. What is there that you are envious of?" And often envy is a very inaccurate emotion.

[00:00:18]We envy the whole of someone when actually it tends to be a part of them that we want. And so we go, "I'm envious of that singer, actor, business person, etc." You want to go, "Hang on, hang on." It's It won't be the whole thing.

[00:00:31]Drill into it. What what really is core here?" And you might realize, "It's actually not their fame, their money, etc. It's that they work with their hands." Or it's that they, you know, um live in a [music] log cabin somewhere far away from other people, or whatever it is. So, the best thing to do with envy is to see it as a guide for your own ambition, not a sign of your innate [music] jealousy and inadequacy. Mhm. It's a clue.