The challenge is from one’s self to one’s self.
You are not in competition with anyone but yourself. Your goal is to improve each time you practice. Everyone has varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses. You may be better in some things than your classmates and worse in others, but your objective should be to improve yourself, even if only in tiny increments as long as they are steady.
An adult trying to compete with a youngster in some things, like flexibility, may be setting themselves up for disappointment. You need only get better than you were and you will be progressing. It is not a sprint to the finish line, but a long journey towards accomplishment. Those who understand the marathon ahead of them will eventually surpass those who were only in it for the quick sprint.
Challenge yourself to do better than you have done.
