Warren Buffet, chairperson and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, once said, “The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an inner scorecard or an outer scorecard. It helps if you can be ...

I don’t want to admit this, but I have a history of comparing my success to that of my friends. But this is a fool’s errand—I am a freelance writer and, for whatever reason, many of my friends are ...