In our interconnected world, you are competing with everyone.
Don’t play other people’s games, figure out what your game is. What is it that you naturally do well? Focus on becoming better at what you naturally do.
The better you become, the more valuable the outcomes will be that you can create.
You don’t need to be twice as good as the next guy, you just need to be a little bit better than most.
A high schooler can potentially run 100 meters in 10 seconds. If you run less than half a second faster you would be the fastest in the world. We value that extra half-second by a huge margin. The fastest runner in the world makes millions of dollars. He is not twice as fast as the best high schooler. He is less than 5% better.
Figure out your game, and what you will focus on to be better than most.