>Follow advice to surround yourself with the kind of people you want to be like
>Realize you are physiologically incapable of becoming like them
>Have a bunch of friends who you really like on a personal level but who are a constant reminder of your inadequacies
This is hell.
You know it's like the conversation always steers toward that stuff too. On one hand they most likely want to see you succeed and stuff get better. On the other hand it's like this constant reminder of why you suck.