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Another unintuitive distinction: If you compare yourself to others you can only ever follow in someone's footsteps while becoming second best... But if you co

• ianai 4y ago
  Or you might still be “not at their level” but still at your personal best. Be careful about letting external factors and actors impact your own self worth. There will absolutely always be someone who can appear better than you. Take your self worth from inside unless you’re a serial killer or something. Put another way, if you let your personal self worth come from external means then you’re ripe for being manipulated by toxic and malignant sources (people/algorithms).
  • CodeSgt 4y ago
    Where should an aspiring serial killer get their self-worth from then?
• MrDrDr 4y ago
  Reminds me of the poem by Matsu Basho: Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sort.
  • bloak 4y ago
    Or sought.
• GameOfFrowns 4y ago
  >But if you compare to past yourself, you can potentially get head and shoulders above the crowd and become the best. That only helps when you're on an upward (career) trajectory and optimistic. My younger self was healthier, had more energy, more mental acuity, was better-looking, better-liked, less cynical, had more opportunities and more time on earth left to fulfill their dreams as well as enough naivety to believe he could be become the best at something for which other people had a natural aptitude and a twenty-year headstart.