How do you deal with people being better than you?

[Funyarinpa]

 

 

That level of competitiveness and ability usually seems to go hand in hand with narcissism, and that is of course an incredibly anti-social attribute, so no surprise those types of people act like assholes.  I've known around 3-4 people that were obsessed with their grades and were nice people, while the rest of them were unpleasant to be around.

 

My best friend last school year was a guy like this, I was practically the only person (that I know of ) he was quite well off with at school, but we drifted apart when he started getting stellar grades and my performance plummeted (mostly lack of reception from my end, I started to hang out more with some other friends none of whom were successful in anything academic). He was apathetic at best towards others but I know he had a shaky past so I don't blame him. The guy loved water polo, most of his friends were his teammates to my knowledge. That concept's utterly alien to me because 1) I've never been in a team of any sort and 2) My social life has always revolved around the internet and school.

[InvertMouse]

I know Initial D is not necessary some sort of philosophical show, but this one particular scene has always stood out to me:

 

 

Dad: So who are you racing with this time?

 

Main character: I am racing Takahashi Ryosuke............ Actually, no, I am racing with myself.

 

Dad: Racing with yourself?........... It looks like this kid has finally graduated.

 

[Justin579]

I'm a very competitve person, which is rather painfull considering I suck at everything. So, I act like an asshole to everyone to compensate for my inadequacies.

it seems we have a a lot of thins in common.

 

 

 

If I am getting my ass kicked to hard in a game I usually just quit. And I don't want my teammates yelling at me saying: you suck, stop feeding, reporting.

So that one in a million chance I do do good in a game, I celebrate and brag about it.

[Mugi]

It depends on how much I care about what we're playing, and how big of a gap there is between me and whoever is better than me. For instance, if me and someone else were playing a game I didn't much care for and they were astronomically better than me, I wouldn't really care and I wouldn't try and get anywhere close to as good as them. However in a game i'm pretty into, i'll generally try to get as good, if not better than the person who is better than me. 

[Kaguya]

If they're significantly better than me, I'll fawn them hard and roleplay a doormat to try and get them to teach what I'm doing wrong and how can I get better.

Don't mind being worse than someone in a game. In fact, it's way more frustrating when you lose to players who are worse than you. 

[Deep Blue]

I don't, nobody is better than me....

I really don't care, you will always find better people than you in many things youjust have to live with it.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

It used to annoy me quite a bit ~10 years ago, but nowadays it's kinda gone the other way and I expect there to be people who are better than me. Stops me getting my hopes up too high, and more importantly from making a cocky tit of myself.

 

That being said, I'm betting I could own people's arses at air hockey ^.^

[Darklord Rooke]

I'm betting I could own people's arses 

 

Ewwwww. And anyway I don't know why you'd want to - I'm thinking one arse is plenty for any normal person...