Often I think, we make excuses for ourselves as to why we can't do something or why it is impossible to change our conditions. And then when other people do and improve theirs, we devalue it and make more excuses as to why they could, or tell ourselves a story that in actual fact, they are worse off than us for it. This might make us feel more comfortable with our lives as is, but it isn't useful to help us improve our lives.

I actually laughed at this. This is really common among people, including myself sometimes (oops). Time to change my mindset!