Envy Is Your Best Friend

Nour Boustani
6 min readAug 25, 2022

Do you often shamelessly envy successful people, hide in your small closet, and cry about yourself? Do you feel better after badmouthing others and smashing their reputation? If yes, then you are a colossal idiot.

There is a difference between constructive envy and negative and destructive one.

Positive envy is one of the most powerful emotions you can leverage to keep up with top performers and become the best version of yourself. The idea of competing with yourself and being the best version of yourself is total crap. If you don’t envy top performers and compare your performance with them, you will turn yourself into the worst ignorant version you could be.

Nations envy other nations’ technological, economic, and political power and work their butts off to avoid slipping to the bottom of the civilizations and push hard to stay at the top of the game.

I have always positively envied the wealthiest, healthiest, and sexiest people on this planet, and I always wanted to have what they got. If you call me sick or insecure for that, I’m ready to kick your ass and put you back in your place.

The problem I see in our society nowadays is that stupid people use the emotions of envy the wrong way; they stare at a thing they lust for a lot, then badmouth and degrade the people who have it.

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Nour Boustani
Nour Boustani

Written by Nour Boustani

Hit the sweet spot or leave it be.

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