“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability” - John Wooden 
Discussion
You know the first lesson Wooden taught his players every season?
Yep. Tie your shoelaces.
I refuse to live in the world of "what if".
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No, I don't want to develop a God complex. Thank you. Oops. There it is.
External pressure alone isn't quite cutting it? Why not in addition apply pressure to yourself as well. Evaluate yourself constantly, measure your abilities in relation to some imaginary scale or even better to other people. Create inner conflict. A recipe to happiness 😄
Seriously though, this moralistic self-improvement discipline isn't helping many people at all. In my own experience, become aware of your thoughts and actions, be 100% honest with yourself, but also forgive yourself, love yourself, be free and do what your intuition, your heart leads you to, not your self-punishing intellect. Be a 'better' person because you want to, not because you have to. And you will find your flow and happiness.
Doesn’t resonate with me personally.
Yes, I noticed. It's a different perspective that helped me, and that's why I wanted to mention it as a reply here. Everyone should figure out what works for them.
For me personally, it was freeing to take that extra pressure to excel, from outside and especially from within, away from myself. This way I can thrive more with ease, in freedom. And then I will excel automatically anyway. But in a more loving, integrated way. This allows me too feel unity instead of separation.