What part of/chemical in our brain leads us to believe anything we do is not as satisfactory or as good as when someone else does it?
In: Biology
I’m personally most familiar with this as it relates to creative stuff, but I think it applies to everything.
There’s always a gap in your work between intention and execution. You have an image in your head of how you want the final product to look. And the final product is always lacking somehow. ‘That line should have been over here’ or ‘that color isn’t quite right.’
But when you look at someone else’s work, you don’t know the intention, you only see the execution. So you are judging it more fairly for its own merits rather than comparing it to a hypothetical perfect thing.
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