"Don't compare your insides to someone else's outsides." Your framing suggests you feel you are struggling. Do you know for a fact that they didn't feel the sa

"Don't compare your insides to someone else's outsides." Your framing suggests you feel you are struggling. Do you know for a fact that they didn't feel the same way? Do you have objective measures showing that you are actually underperforming compared to them? I was a good student in school, but I still got nervous taking tests. I said that one day for some reason to my French professor. She expressed surprise and said that I looked so calm. (The conversation was in French and a million years ago. But that is the gist of it.) You need to try to get objective metrics for your performance. It is incredibly common for people to feel stressed out and to feel they are struggling while others make it look easy and so forth. How a person subjectively feels is often unrelated to the objective metrics of work quality.