Someone is always superior in talent to you physically, artistically and in specific mental areas, but only you can best yourself in the matter of consciousness, (that is to say, thought-trumps-thought).
One guy’s persisting comment to himself: “Be dumb on your own time.”
In the Final Analysis – there is no final analysis.
After doing something dumb that he had done before, one man would often say aloud to himself: “Am I ever going to learn?” And one day surprisingly, (but perhaps finally), replied: “Can you spell – ‘never’?”
…and The Ultimate Explanation for everything – is silence.
Everyone’s shtik originally wears thin – except the Shtikman’s.
J.