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Has it ever occurred to you that you spend so much time and energy creating some sort of content, and when you are done, with confidence like an inflated balloon, you are ready to launch out your swag-loaded brainchild...then you slide into some blogs to compare what the feel would likely be to potential audience and bam! You rate yours zero? I mean, all that ideas you thought you had seem to become lame and insignificant when laid in contrast with what you've seen others do? Well, I think you are not alone in this.

Often times, applying comparisons to anything and everything kills creativity if not done with the right motive. The fact remains that comparison is not altogether bad, Its idea of robbing you of your originality is. Strange right? By making comparisons, one could oftentimes get settled on either of the two extremes of findings: “I’m better than” or “I’m not good enough.” More often than not, the situation has always been the latter. **THE BAD MEASURING TAPE-COMPARISON** https://steemitimages.com/407x271/https://www.asisshop.de/media/image/fd/59/bf/000047690000_0_600x600.jpg [Image source]( https://www.asisshop.de/media/image/fd/59/bf/000047690000_0_600x600.jpg) When the basis of appraisal or ridicule for your performance evaluation is laid on comparisons made with some other object of same or different division, you are practically giving up your independent mind to an intellectual colonization. Picture a choir of four parts: treble, alto, tenor and bass. All four parts hit different notes which are synchronized to sound a chord, right? What if all parts were to sing the same note? That’s it; the music loses its harmony! But literally, comparison has the same effect, shaping one’s imaginations and ideas to be in a particular way when there are in fact very many paradigms to explore. So much creativity has been buried because Harry makes John’s work a measure for his own success, thereby having a John speaking and acting through Harry. I’d say “more Johns and no Harry’s.” **MY 5 CENT TO STEEMIANS** https://steemitimages.com/407x271/http://nobodyaskedpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/advice-cloud.png [Image source](http://nobodyaskedpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/advice-cloud.png) Steemit has presented a platform where one could be rewarded for creating some sort of content, and there is a teaming population who’s really got their eyes on the price, folks don’t hesitate writing on gigs they haven’t really wrapped their heads around. As far as that’s where the money is, lol! Come on, except for the numerous challenges which you should always try to take advantage of, you can still make it by creating contents in your area of core competence….why struggle to be a shark when you’re already an established cheetah? Why waste away in water when you have some good reputations on land?