Hey,
You open LinkedIn and someone’s posted a clean player rating model. Someone else has just landed a role at a club. A third person is at the StatsBomb conference, lanyard round their neck, looking like they belong.
And quietly, you think: everyone’s miles ahead of me.
I get messages like this most weeks. People who feel like the game started without them.
Here is what’s actually going on.
You’re comparing your day one to their year one, year two or year three.