how do you react when you meet someone better than you in every way?

Well that's life, people will always be better, and move on.

It should never happen, you always have to back yourself. There is always an angle you can take where you have an edge. Use those edges to your advantage and succeed in life.

such as? This person is invested with all the skills and talents you hve. You would have to use something very unique and personal to defeat them. Like fighting an evil clone

Naturally I'd assume they've got some hideous degenerative illness or massive, albeit hidden, character flaw in order to feel better about myself.[/QUOTE]

haha I've noticed people do this rationalisation self-defence mechanism when faced with cold hard truths alll the time

You're insecure. If you met someone who's better than you, there's always someone worse than you. People are living in poverty, disease and danger.

Learn to put things in perspective and stop thinking about first world problems.

Read the full thing. Some strong traits lead to weakness in other areas: you're supremely confident which inevitably spills over into arrogance meaning you're not humble. Humility is a great thing which allows you to annoy way less people. Arrogant man has more friends but also more enemies and worse friends so you have a 6 and two threes situation but taken in isolation, it's a win for your character accompanying a loss of equal magnitude but it still disproves your idea that someone could be better in every way.

read the bit 'incredibly benevolent and altruistic' [I should have added humble]

add 'is simply naturally or has simply attained through hard work a state of superiority to you'

Of course I'm insecure. So is everyone, but myself more than a few, since most people are not persistently plagued by distressing thoughts like this-or choose notto think about them tbqh, I know I have agency. I have a morbid fascination with how people's insecurities are exploited (including my own) and how they would react.

In the event of OP, homelessness, divorce and unemployment, this wouldn't be a first world problem anymore. In fact the use of that term is sometimes a means of dismissing an argument people cannot tolerate.

How do you know it will never happen?

Only homelessness isn't a first world problem. Unemployment and divorce are both first world problems, the latter is very common in first world societies actually. A lot of people are refraining from marriage and are having less children. If you're unemployed in this country and receives benefits, you're much better off than say someone who's starving in Africa. Even the poorest people in the UK are better off in a global perspective. So, your point doesn't make much sense.

You're confused. You should get help immediately.

I'd do what I always do in such situations: I'd have sex with them.

There is no such person...

There is no such person...

Coming from the rep abuser.

would your child be able to defeat them after 18 years of hiding and training by 2 Jedi Masters?

bit arrogant that innit

It is not arrogance, it is "being realistic". If you really think this person who is "better than you at everything" exists then you'd be stuck in depression forever.

They would only be better than me if they were also more good and compassionate than me, in which case they would be more considerate than to take over someone else's life and friends and even bedroom, knowing that other person (who is not a bad person) got left in the cold. It just wouldn't happen.

If they were selfish enough to take everything from me when they already had a lot going for them, then they're lower than me.