I consider myself to be garbage at math. Yet, I work with math on a daily basis for the last 3+ years and literally make my living by making mathy software. Is this perception of myself and math due to having witnessed the greatness of some of my friends and family who won high awards at national and international mathematics Olympiads? Sure, they're incredible at math, but they are probably in the top 0.00001% percentile. And, even if I'm top 0.01% percentile I'm still very far from reaching the same heights as them and they're the ones I compare myself to. Thus, I end up thinking I'm garbage when perhaps I'm still really good when compared to average person it's just that the people around me are astronomically good at math. Like, ffs one of them won university physics competition at 14 yrs old!! I need to remind myself normal people are not like that.