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)	Patent Office Clerk A. Einstein Formulated Theory of Relativity. (more)
Judean Carpenter Jesus of Nazareth Told young women he was God and they believed him. (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