Two Types of People

In the simplest terms, there are two types of people in the world…

There are people who want to be the very best they can be, and then people who just want to be better than other people.

People who want to be the best they can be are going to be your autonomous folks — your leaders, innovators, altruists, trailblazers, visionaries, etc.

People who just want to be better than other people are gonna be your ideologues. That means they’re going to be narcissistic, competitive, aggressive, greedy and self-serving.

People who want to be the best they can be are the ones who move the world forward.

People who just want to be better than other people hold the world back, because they hold others back for fear of being eclipsed, outshined and other people consuming ahead of them.

People who want to be the best they can be move with a sense of purpose and timing that’s divorced from what’s happening in the world around them.

People who just want to be better than others have goals and aspirations that are limited by and to what’s popular and/or lends itself to success within a given social domain.

People who want to be their best tend to walk alone.

People who want to be better than other people tend to gravitate to, and depend heavily on groups.

People who want to be the best they can be experience confidence in their vision and purpose.

People who only want to be better than others hide behind bravado, authority and status markers.

People who want to be the best they can be are usually secure within themselves.

People who just want to be better than others are constantly competing for attention and authority, and trying to demonstrate value by comparing and contrasting themselves to others.

People who want to be the best they can be focus almost exclusively on tasks related to advancing in their purpose.

People who just want to be better than others focus on the people in front of them, or who’s beside them, or on those they fear will catch up to and surpass them.

People who want to be the best they can be are rewarded by their accomplishments and through the levels of proficiency they reach and ascend through.

People who want to be better than other people only feel rewarded when they garner attention, praise and validation from others, or capture authority and resources from them.

People who want to be the best they can be see the world through a lens of potential.

People who just want to be better than other people see the world through a lens of scarcity.

People who want to be the best they can be are usually honest, generous and mentally and emotionally stable.

People who just want to be better than other people are generally deceitful, selfish, and only give to or do for others conditionally — a product of being mentally and emotionally unbalanced.

People who want to be the best they can be are conscientious, and monitor their own thoughts, actions, behaviors and the impacts they make on other people and things around them.

People who only want to be better than others are scared of their inner world, so they try to police and control other people’s lives, thoughts, actions and behaviors.

People who want to be the best they can be are cheering on those who are paving paths to the future and sustainability.

People who just want to be better than others are cheering on those who do things they benefit from, and tend to think that everyone who’s not worshipping and edifying them and their identity features and life experience is trying to steal attention and opportunities away from them.

You know the craziest part about it all though?

People who just want to be better than others feel like folks who are trying to be their very best “think too highly of themselves”, and need to humble themselves and prostrate themselves before their perceived authority, value and worth. People who want to be better than others think people who are simply trying to be their best are trying to compete against them for attention and authority.

Folks be minding their own business, and people who just want to be better than them take high offense to them doing their own thing.

It’s like: “This person thinks they’re so high and mighty!”

No… you’re just a fucking narcissist. You think everybody who doesn’t accept or fit into the box you’ve assigned them to thinks that they’re high and mighty. You’re the problem here.

The thing is, we each get to choose which type of person we’ll be.