Work on developing your inner score card. The way you feel about yourself should have zero, zip, zilch to do with what other people around you are doing. Bench

Work on developing your inner score card. The way you feel about yourself should have zero, zip, zilch to do with what other people around you are doing. Benchmarking yourself against other smart people is just the kind of dumb stuff smart people do, and you shouldn’t do it. After all, what is smart? high iq? Wealth? happiness? It’s also insane how many people operate with an outer score card like this. Pretty much everyone, but you don’t have to. Here’s a start: be a decent person who is kind to others. Take pride in that. Keep points on your inner score card. Surely you can look around you and see how many people no matter how “smart” or “successful” lack these qualities. Not all of them but plenty