I've had this feeling too, and I've found this hack to keep feeling hopeful of eventually being the top 100 of something There are ~8x10⁹ people on earth, if y

I've had this feeling too, and I've found this hack to keep feeling hopeful of eventually being the top 100 of something There are ~8x10⁹ people on earth, if you are at the top 99.99% percentile, that still leaves ~800.000 people better than you. But now lets see this from a different angle, and let's assume there are at least 100 different areas of expertise you can choose from, and you are young, you can still become an expert in more areas. If we calculate the combinations of 3 areas of expertise, we get 161.700 combinations, that leaves on average ~50k people on each possible combination, you are now competing against ~50.000 people instead of 8 billion!!!, if you become the top 98% percentile of that group, you are now in the top 100 worldwide of that combination. Now try those calculations again but with 1000 areas of expertise