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Originally Posted by willravel
Better is relative. I'm better than some people at playing music. People are better than I am at speling. Even overall, judgment of being better or worse is subjective.
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Ah, yes, I forgot to mention this. I think that another reason that people like me are so distressed is that our natural talents are so natural to us that we don't view them as talents. And therefore we won't ascribe as much importance to them.
For example, suppose someone wishes that he could, say, pick up girls as well as Tom. From Tom's point of view, picking up girls is so natural that he doesn't even consider it as a criteria to measure someone's worth. In the same way, I don't consider my strengths when I measure myself against someone...I only highlight my weaknesses and his strengths.
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this way sometimes. I was sure that this was a common feeling among humans. Perhaps I was wrong.