 If you're on the medical journey and anything like me, then you've likely fallen into the comparison death cycle. This is where you look at your classmates and your peers and you're just amazed about how smart and brilliant or efficient they are and wonder how in the world you're gonna out-compete them for the same jobs and residencies and scholarships. But here's the most important takeaway after going to a competitive medical school of how is able to overcome this and if anything, use it to my advantage. Instead of looking at your classmates as competition, simply start to look at them as a source of motivation. Because if you look at them as competition, every decision you make, whether it's a good one or a bad one or has a good result or not, it's always going to be in the comparison of how your classmates are doing. But on the flip side, if you use them as motivation, you can start to ask which weaknesses and inefficiencies do I wanna work on and which of my classmates and peers seem to do this well. How can I implement small things that they're doing to level up myself? With this approach, not only will you be less stressed, you'll also start to make more progress over time and likely end up being at the top of your medical school class without having to feel like you're out-competing all of them.