Stop comparing yourself to others

It's a trap, a game you can't win, writes Thomas DeLong, a professor of management at The Harvard Business School.

Right, professor. Look how you've done.

In fact, when he joined Harvard his office was next to a guy who had written 12 books and was an internationally known scholar. If that wasn't enough, on the other side of DeLong's office was a guy who had one the Nobel prize in economics.