Don't focus on doing only one thing. You can be average at doing something and great at something else. If you're only writing code, start doing something that'

Don't focus on doing only one thing. You can be average at doing something and great at something else. If you're only writing code, start doing something that's completely unrelated to computers, like handicrafts so that you have more than one metric by which people could (if they dare) judge you. A good metric to live by is how many smiles can you put on other people's faces around you. If you started some sort of handicraft, you could make cheap to manufacture, high emotional value gifts or products that others would love and if you can make other people happy and they like you back, you just have a legitimate reason to slap that person who called you a loser senseless next time he/she dares to say that again. Most important, live by your own standards and do more than one thing so that you have many standards.