Every time you come across someone who is better than you (in any sense: physical fitness, intellectual sharpness, material richness, spiritual advancement) you have two options to choose from, and this choice will shape and define your character perhaps more than anything else. The options are:
1) You work on improving yourself: Exercise, study, develop a better economic
sense, work harder, meditate more, serve more. Improve yourself and try to
become as good as or better than whoever you feel is ahead of you in any sense.
2) Try to trip others or pull them down so that you can get ahead.
If you choose the first option, you are guaranteed to improve (in fact this
is the only way you can improve).
If you choose the second option, you will stay weak, mediocre and unevolved. This may seem like a shortcut to success. But all it will lead to is a dead end. You will stay where you are in terms of competence and capability and people you trip will simply get up, brush away the dust, and progress again.
You may be faced with this choice many many times in life. Choose correctly each and every time and just trust yourself and do the best you can. You will live an awesome life!
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