The point I am trying to make making isn’t about trying to be the best at everything, the point I making is the top 1% isn’t inherently better than the 50th percentile.
People who judge themselves by external metrics and think higher must be better can become overachievers, but getting depressed about their “failings” is just as problematic. I don’t mean this as a happy go lucky, showing up is worth a prize. I mean it in terms of the evolutionary pressure, body builders make poor marathon athletes.
The rank for strongest person goes in one direction, the rank for weakest person goes the other. To say your behind suggests a preferred and ranked ordering, that’s reasonably true of checkout lines at the grocery store. However it’s not so for total body weight as neither 50lbs nor 500lbs is the ideal adult body weight.
You can be objectively behind without it being subjectively worse. I don't think it suggests what you're saying.
It literally says not to compete with others. If you still see everything as a competition, you're not taking the advice.
And if you're competing on an absurd metric that nobody else even thinks is a competition, like being the heaviest, then you probably have other issues that you need to work on.
