Hmm. To me it always felt more natural to “compare myself to the task rather than to my peers”, no matter what task and what level, even when I’m a complete beginner at something. It just makes more sense. The only reason to look at peers is to steal their tricks :-)
Well, if one tries to assess their performance compared to their potential, observing your peers can be a way to guess that. It’s not necessarily a matter of competitiveness as much as “this is the reference class I’m in, so this is roughly the kind of thing I can reasonably aspire to”. But if you’re on a class of your own anyway then you can’t even appeal to that—only look at the task.
Hmm. To me it always felt more natural to “compare myself to the task rather than to my peers”, no matter what task and what level, even when I’m a complete beginner at something. It just makes more sense. The only reason to look at peers is to steal their tricks :-)
Well, if one tries to assess their performance compared to their potential, observing your peers can be a way to guess that. It’s not necessarily a matter of competitiveness as much as “this is the reference class I’m in, so this is roughly the kind of thing I can reasonably aspire to”. But if you’re on a class of your own anyway then you can’t even appeal to that—only look at the task.