Aid to Evaluating Your Accomplishments

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

Tuberculosis Sufferer Niels Henrik Abel Developed group theory, proved the binomial theorem, and did important work in quintic equations and elliptic functions prior to his death at age 26. (more)	Encyclopedia Americana staff writer Norbert Wiener Received Ph.D. from Harvard at age 18, subsequently founded field of communication science/cybernetics. (more)
Judean Carpenter Jesus of Nazareth Told young women he was God and they believed him. (more)	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)

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