It’s Too Easy To Gas Yourself Up Thinking About Your Percentile

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It’s too easy to gas yourself up thinking about your percentile. “Woah, I’m 99th percentile, I’m such a baller…” – no, you’re 1 in 100. In a country with 100 million people, there’s a million of you. If you want to be one in a million, you need to improve by many orders of magnitude.

It’s too easy to think “99th… 99.9th… 99.99th… they’re basically the same thing, 99th is nearly there, I made it.” That’s flat-out wrong. If you want to have an accurate intuitive sense of how good you are, don’t think about your percentile. Think about how many of you there are.

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