Aid to Evaluating Your Accomplishments

Compare yourself to these four ordinary people who were selected at random:

University Dropout Carl Friedrich Gauss By the age of 21, he had constructed a regular 17-gon by ruler and compasses, the most major advance in this field since the time of the Greeks. Subsequently developed method of least squares, normal probability distribution, Fast Fourier Transform, and a non-Euclidean geometry. (more)	Science Fiction Author L. Ron Hubbard Created the religion of Scientology in 1950. 1998 membership: more than one million. (more)
English Youth John Stuart Mill Was able to read Greek and Latin at age 3. (more)	Hartford Connecticut Insurance Executive Wallace Stevens Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954; best known for "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". (more)

Programmed by Eve Astrid Andersson and Philip Greenspun back in the mid-1990s. If you're a nerd, you might find the source code useful.

Original Inspiration: How to Make Yourself Miserable, by Dan Greenburg