Additionally, prodigies are amongst the most likely people to experience this, because they spend so much of their early life being the best in the room. Math grad students aren’t comparing themselves to the 8 billion people who are worse than them at math, they’re comparing themselves to each other, field leaders, and dead people who accomplished more at a given age.
The phenomenon extends beyond math
Additionally, prodigies are amongst the most likely people to experience this, because they spend so much of their early life being the best in the room. Math grad students aren’t comparing themselves to the 8 billion people who are worse than them at math, they’re comparing themselves to each other, field leaders, and dead people who accomplished more at a given age.