Everyone runs their own race.
I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'
The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.
