You already know that there is someone better than you at everything. There is someone better than you even at the things you are good at, really good at.

There are people better than you at the things you have never tried but really want to try, want to be good at. Yet just the knowledge, nay, just the sight of seeing their performances, their products, their work, makes you decide you will never try and do what you want to do because you will look foolish in comparison to them.

This is why you are pathetic. This is why your life is pathetic.

You are letting fear, embarrassment, and pride keep you from doing what you want to do, but much more importantly, you are keeping yourself from growing.

You were put on this earth to grow. Everything that is alive (and healthy), strives to grow, strives to eat, strives to learn, strives to accumulate.

Yet, you are missing a key truth. That you don’t have to be better than the best to do the things you want to do. You just have to be good enough. You don’t have to be better than George Carlin to be successful at stand up, you just have to be good enough to make people laugh.

You don’t have to be the greatest doctor to be a successful doctor. You just have to be good enough to help people, good enough to be confident in your practice, in what you know how to do.

You don’t have to compare yourself to Picasso to want to be a good painter; you just have to want to express yourself through art. You put aside your negative self chatter, you put aside the crippling self doubt, and you do it because you want to do it.

As we all clearly know, but frequently, time and time again forget, the more you do something the better you’ll get at it. Key word the “MORE” you do it. If you do not keep doing it, incorporate it into your daily life routine, then when you try to to that thing once every year, once every 5 years…. You are indeed not going to be very good at it.

Just because some guy is way better looking than you, funnier than you, richer than you, smarter than you, does not mean you have to be better than him to get women. You just have to be good enough to get that one woman at that one time.

Conversely, you don’t have to worry how sexy that girl is: how perfect her hair is, how striking her eyes are, how expensive her car is, how busy she seems to be. You just have to want her. That is enough reason to talk to her.

If your unhappy with your lot in life, it is real simple. You have stopped growing, you have become stagnant. You work the same job, play the same video games, watch the same shows, eat the same food, believe the same ideas, hang out with the same people, live in the same town, jerk off to the same porn, yearn over the same girl. You have become stale, so much so, that even you don’t like the taste of yourself. This is all the result of not growing. Your whole spiritual and mental system is backed up. You desperately require some catastrophic event to shake you out of this calcification your frozen in.

You don’t have to wait though. You can be creative today, you can write something today, you can talk to someone new today, you can quit your job today, you can talk to an attractive girl today, you can make amends with someone you want back in your life today, you can cook a new meal today, you can be bold today.

Or not, I don’t care.

I can’t force you to do anything.

Good Luck