> Going from "not the best" as a high schooler to "not the best" as an adult is... fine? Its no major difference. No matter how hard I try to improve the way m

> Going from "not the best" as a high schooler to "not the best" as an adult is... fine? Its no major difference. No matter how hard I try to improve the way my eight year old thinks about things, he always approaches new experiences with thoughts like "maybe I'll be the first to…" or "maybe I'll invent a better…". I've seen this in my adult peers, but the wording is a bit different even though it's just as unhealthy e.g. "perhaps I'll start the next Facebook". The sentiment is expressed in the popular meme quote: "Born too late to explore the earth, but born too early to explore the stars". I reckon this was common in the recent past, but with the naïveté that comes with living without pervasive mass communication, those thoughts were more likely to be motivating than deflating.