Your biggest competition is often the amount of your own potential you leave unused.

The most consequential gap is usually between what you are capable of and what you actually put into use, not between you and someone else. Comparing outward is a distraction from that, and it is also unwinnable, since there is always someone further along.

Ask what you know you could do that you have not been doing. Not a new ambition, something already within your reach that you have been leaving on the table. Start there rather than anywhere requiring new capacity.