Thank you Niklas for a really insightful and honest post.

I have had a similar realisation recently which really shocked me. How could I rationalise the fact that I help other people to “solve their problems” and yet I am not “better” than them.

I found it really helpful to get to grips with this tension by internalising the quote by Thomas Carlyle, “Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him”. I also practiced an outward focused, loving-kindness meditation while I was out in public wishing good things upon strangers and noticing positives or things that I admired about them. I also found it was helpful to imagine how my strengths might be considered negatives or weaknesses and that perhaps “better” is in the eye of the beholder.

Thanks again for sharing.

Alison