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Re:Don’t Benchmark Yourself Against Normal by awakeasleep on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @02:41AM (#4473436)
Reminds me of Marcus Aurelius:

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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Re:Don’t Benchmark Yourself Against Normal by jakeonthemove on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @08:20AM (#4474211)
Huh, it seems to me that the first way produces both/either aspiration or ambition, whereas the second way produces complacency...
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