The internet really helps with that, by expanding your world to include some people who are just dazzlingly brilliant, and remind you how far you have to go. Th

The internet really helps with that, by expanding your world to include some people who are just dazzlingly brilliant, and remind you how far you have to go. This guy, for example: http://blog.sigfpe.com/ http://blog.sigfpe.com/ The nice thing about this kind of ego-shrinking is that it's combined with inspiration to do something about it, rather than just feeling deflated. There's so much interesting stuff out there.