"I'm not special...but I have a PhD...and I want to be better than everyone else at robot stuff"<br><br>Hard work does not correlate with being the best. It just doesn't. And why does it matter whether you worked for your specialness (as he is striving for) or that you were born with it? The point is you value specialness for some reason. And why is that?,(reply>), You’ve never had a passion for anything have you? Being special has a multitude of definitions. And you’ve chosen the one you deemed fit to feed into your idea that someone better than you is gloating. When in reality it’s him trying to make it obvious that it takes sacrifice and hard work to reach certain levels of greatness as opposed to just being “special”. You’re definitely the type of person that was responsible for the creation of “participation trophies” so that no kid felt left out.