Steve Levitt was discouraged in his first year of graduate school at MIT. He decided to study crime, a subject that no one else was studying. His dad had told him he didn't have any talent and should just keep going with what everyone else is doing. In the same way, comparing yourself can make you feel worse if there are lots of other big fish in your pond.
Is it better to be the best player on the worst team or the worst player on the best team? How did Angela cope with her extremely impressive freshman dorm mates? And why won’t Shaquille O'Neal let Charles Barkley have an onion ring?