Acharya Prashant addresses the fear of mediocrity by advising that one's responsibility is to be better than oneself, not to calibrate oneself against other people. He cautions young, competitive individuals against this tendency, suggesting they should instead ask, "How better am I compared to what I was yesterday?" Each person is on their own individual journey, and it is neither possible nor wise to compare oneself against others. The focus should be on one's starting point and the progress made from there. The real battle is not against others but against oneself; being your own best self is the essence of all wisdom and bravery. The crucial questions to ask are, "How am I?" and "How far have I come from where I started?" To illustrate this, Acharya Prashant shares his experience from IIT, where he observed that a student's true worth is not determined by their rank but by their background and the odds they have overcome. He posits that a student from an underprivileged background in a remote village who secures admission is a far worthier candidate than someone from an affluent family with every facility. What truly matters is what one is fighting against. The world may benchmark individuals against each other based on metrics like percentages and label someone as mediocre, but one should not take such judgments to heart. One must understand their own context and starting point. The responsibility is not to match someone with a higher score but to improve upon one's own performance, for example, by turning a 68% into a 72%. Such an improvement is more respectable than stagnating at a higher level. He concludes by advising to be on an endless journey of improvement, emphasizing that this improvement must be directed towards a rightly chosen goal. One must choose the right target and then constantly keep improving towards it.