Well, you could find someone that doesn't do any engineering and compare yourself to them. That'll do it :) I kid, but seriously forget the hype. The way you g

Well, you could find someone that doesn't do any engineering and compare yourself to them. That'll do it :) I kid, but seriously forget the hype. The way you get better at anything by any amount is usually a bit at a time, and the tricks are the same: plan, practice and optimise. If you don't know where you're lacking then you'll only ever get better incidentally, so try and know where you're lacking. If you don't know what you want to get better at then you'll only be growing relevantly incidentally, so have a plan. With plan and self-awareness in hand it's just practice, optimise, rinse and repeat: this works for just about everything. For my mentality (and this isn't universally preferable), if you have to compare yourself to others, then pick comparators that you're always worse than. If you beat your comparators quickly pick new ones. Don't ever be "the best" because if you actually believe it, you won't be it for long.