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Jeez, dude, don't be so hard on yourself! Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that ar

Jeez, dude, don't be so hard on yourself! Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you at whatever, as they would to, unless you're Michael Jordan. Find things you like to do that make you happy and do those things. That works for me. I'm a college drop-out/software developer with skeletons in my closet just like you.

HWR_14 5y ago
> no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you at whatever, as they would to, unless you're Michael Jordan. You mean failed minor league baseball player Michael Jordon? Remember that even if you are the best in the world at one thing, outside of your specialty people are going to be better than you.
- shane_b 5y ago
  Even at basketball, Michael Jordan was bad in high school and only at his first couple years of college did he build the work ethic to make him what he is. He’s not inherently exception.
toto444 5y ago
Funny that you use Mickael Jordan as an example because one of his quote is quite popular these days : > I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
neop1x 5y ago
>> Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you This negative mindset may actually hurt you! Your subconscious listens to this. In they past I used to do the opposite. I was learning game programming and when I learned something cool I was imagining that by learning this or that I started being smarter than hundreds or thousands of others my age. So instead of trying to be top-of-the world I could never be I was simply leaving those not willing to improve behind.

HWR_14 5y ago

> no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you at whatever, as they would to, unless you're Michael Jordan. You mean failed minor league baseball player Michael Jordon? Remember that even if you are the best in the world at one thing, outside of your specialty people are going to be better than you.

shane_b 5y ago
Even at basketball, Michael Jordan was bad in high school and only at his first couple years of college did he build the work ethic to make him what he is. He’s not inherently exception.

toto444 5y ago

Funny that you use Mickael Jordan as an example because one of his quote is quite popular these days : > I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

neop1x 5y ago

>> Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you This negative mindset may actually hurt you! Your subconscious listens to this. In they past I used to do the opposite. I was learning game programming and when I learned something cool I was imagining that by learning this or that I started being smarter than hundreds or thousands of others my age. So instead of trying to be top-of-the world I could never be I was simply leaving those not willing to improve behind.