Working on a skill can easily turn into constant comparison with others. Instead of tracking what we understand and do better, we start evaluating who gets more recognition and whose success threatens our position.
Comparison can provide a useful guide, especially when learning from a more experienced person. The problem arises when someone else's result becomes the only yardstick. Then we ignore the different conditions, goals and time invested by someone.
For your own progress, you need more specific questions: what can we do better now and what still needs to be practiced? The answers leave room for us to appreciate other people's success, without diminishing our own work because of it.
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