A wise man once said: “Comparison is the thief of joy” (Theodore Roosevelt), and while he is correct, it is not a particularly helpful statement. The intuitive solution would be to stop comparing ourselves to others, but this isn’t really an option, akin to choosing not to breathe. Comparison plays a very important role in our lives, in early development it lets us copy the people around us long before we are able to ask them what they are doing and why. In later life it lets