Rule 4: Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today.

12 Rules For Life Book Summary (Jordan B. Peterson)

“No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent. You’re a good cook, but there are many good chefs. Some Mafia don has a tackier yacht than you. Some obsessive CEO has a more complicated self-winding watch.”

This is something I realised early in my basketball career. After 5+ years I realised sometimes no matter how hard you try, how much you practice, how much you love something and are passionate about it, there is always going to be someone better than you, smarter than you, quicker than you, faster than you, stronger than you — for 99% of people, in a single domain. To humble yourself even more, even if you’re you’re in the top percentile in one domain of life, there’s a 1000 other domains you’re in the bottom percentile.