An old axiom.....always be nice to the people you meet on the way up the ladder, because eventually you'll be seeing them again on the way down.

It's not about competing unless you go to Winfield, Kansas every year.

It's about doing and making, from what is within your soul. If what you play, makes others feel inferior, then it's their problem. If listening to someone else who you decide is better than you, and, it makes you feel in some way, inferior, then it's your problem.