Excellence is a very general concept, everyone defines excellence differently, and the more excellent people are, the more humble they are, and they will not easily think that they are excellent, because they are well-informed, understand that there are people outside the people, and there is a sky outside the sky.
People who are not good will not think that they are excellent, because they cannot find a reason to support excellence.
So how to define excellence?
Excellence is a relative concept, there will be a distinction between contrast, through comparison with others, see the advantages and disadvantages of others, in turn look at ourselves, where better than others, where worse than others, as long as at a certain point better than others, that is excellent.
Similarly, there are places in others that are better than us, which may be in a certain aspect, or they may be excellent in an all-round way, in short, there is no limit to excellence.
Then again, how about knowing that others are excellent, reflecting our inferiority or yin and yang weirdness to others?
Of course, it is to learn from good people.
Since we are not good enough, let's learn from excellent people and strive to become excellent people. Human society is like this, constantly learning, constantly improving, from small to large, we are all learning from excellent people. The Analects and the Three Character Sutra that I learned when I was a child are all valuable spiritual wealth of our predecessors, and our textbooks, such as Chinese, mathematics, English, etc., do not include the heavy fruits of knowledge of others. Those books, video textbooks, audios, which are not the knowledge and experience of others.
It's just that all the materials for us to study are made into a system, and it is others who help us summarize and tell us which points to learn, and we only need to complete them step by step according to their summarized ideas.
Now, no one is paving the way for us to summarize, we can only rely on ourselves to discover the groping, summarize the highlights, through observing others, to see which aspect of others are excellent, which aspect is what they lack, worth learning, then we will learn in this direction, take him as a template, as the person we want to become, as far as possible to copy the efforts of others. It has been said that even the efforts of replicating others cannot be someone else, but we still have to treat him as the object we want to be, and try to get close to him. At present, there is no better way, unless you can find your own system and find the way you want to live.
For many people in the confused stage, it is easier to find the person you want to be than to grope for it yourself. People are inherently inert, and finding existing templates is the quickest way to put them directly in.