Sometimes it’s a tough pill to swallow that the majority of people aren’t willing to put forth the same effort as you.

I remind myself of those tests they made me take as a kid, some kind of like state or country wide test, where the results came back as a percentage of my peers who also took the test.

I always had the goal of being in some top percentile. 95,97,99th percentile, whatever. But then I think back now, and realize holy fuck, that means 95,97,99 percent of all of my peers got a worse score. And then I realize that most people I run into in life, 95 out of 100, are lower percentile performers. Sure, maybe 45 of them are above 50%, but the other 50, well they’re below 50%. And only 5,3,1 are at a higher percentile then I am.

Sometimes it’s just hard to recognize that the majority of humanity is below your line.