Aid to Evaluating Your Accomplishments

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

Political activist Evariste Galois Made enormous contributions to group theory, polynomial equations, and number theory prior to his death at age 20. (more)	Former Community College Student Craig Venter Developed shotgun gene sequencing technique and founded Celera Genomics, a private company that raced ahead of the government-funded Human Genome Project. (more)
Communist Gao Xiqing Manages more than $400 billion in assets accumulated by the government of China. (more)	English Youth John Stuart Mill Was able to read Greek and Latin at age 3. (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