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RustyBug wrote:
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There will always be someone who is ... what I call " 'er " ... than me.
There will always be someone richer, taller, smarter, prettier, faster, stronger, more eloquent, more succinct, more educated, more practical, more etc. (insert adjective of choice, to include photographic attributes) than I am. Sage advice includes learning to be content in wherever you are, which seems to be antithetical to being malcontent as a driver for growth at perpetual improvement via competitive @ I'm better than you. However, if we are content to consider ourselves as perpetual students, then we are in a state of perpetual improvement and the fact that someone is "er" than us does not relegate us to a competitive malcontent (i.e. I must be the best), yet we still become better.
Sounds like some semantic psycho-hogwash to split the difference ... but there will always be others "er" than me ... and I will always be "er" to others. The only thing that really matters (imo), is the degree to which I am advancing, stagnating or retarding. I can't control how others are advancing, stagnating or retarding about / around me ... but I do have some input to how I'm doing.
I'm good with others being "er" than me ... I just want to be able to look in the rear view mirror and see that today's me is "er" than last year's me.
That said, when I do compete, I do my best to win. But, (football phrase) "on any given Sunday" ... i.e. nobody stays on top 100% of the time, forever. Yet, we can forever continue to "er" ourselves.
Being the best vs. being really good / excellent / mastery ... well, one is time based, temporary and fleeting (comparatively based) while the other is permanent and sustainable, with the wherewithal to withstand the test of time.
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A good exercise is to go back and review all the great work that you've done in 2015 and give oneself credit. Or better yet, go back five years and compare that work to what you're doing now. Should give one considerable pause for thought.
Steve
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