Jealousy Robbins Analysis

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Jealousy
Jealousy is a very common emotion that everyone has. People usually have this kind of emotion when they hear about the success of others. When jealousy comes, people always have the feeling of insecurity. Also, people may think they are not as good as the others. However, as the author, Robbins, writes in his article, jealousy can converted into something good for people. I agree with his opinion that jealousy is actually a good thing for people if they treat jealousy in a correct way. First, people should admit the jealousy, and then they should share the feeling with others. At last, they can change this jealousy into incentive.
The first step people should do is to admit that they have jealousy. It is hard for people to admit they have this emotion, because they think jealousy is a negative emotion. However, as Robbins says in the article, there is nothing bad for people to admit it. So many people have the same emotion. As a result, admitting jealousy is nothing bad.
Next, people can share their feelings to others such as parents, and friends. When you share your feeling to people who are close to you, you can always feel relief. Like a stone fall and on the ground. After people
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Just like the author writes that when we tend to judge the success of the others, it can blind people’ eyes. They will not see the case in a right way. Thus, people will not make progress. For example, in my middle school, I felt jealousy to my classmates who had a really high score on math. I was not good at math at that time, so I thought I was inferior to those who were good at math. One day, I expressed my feeling to my mom. She told me that just did more math problems and did not be disappointment. She also encouraged me that I could get good scores as my classmates. After talking with my mom I felt much better and I started work hard on math. At last, I was as good as my classmates on

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