Comparisons focus on the successes of others while ignoring the challenges. When you compare, you are never looking at a complete picture. It’s unwise, and it can stunt your personal development.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.