Why You Feel Left Behind - The Need to Get Ahead

Humans beings, like other animals, are a competitive species. As a result, we compare ourselves to others.

If for most of history you only knew about the nearest ~150 people, now you can easily find the ‘best’ people at anything online: billionaires, supermodels, so on.

The academic arms race and the trend of promoting early development and success - wonderkin - can have a detrimental impact on motivation, as it becomes easy to be let down seeing how much more others may have achieved at your age.

It’s easy to fall into the delusion of not being good enough. However, that shouldn’t be the case.