# Who Are You Competing With? Digraj Singh Rajput’s Advice To Students 2026-08-21T08:57:45+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Educator Digraj Singh Rajput has advised students to stop measuring themselves against others and instead focus on their own progress. In a LinkedIn post, he described a classroom interaction where a student asked how to handle intense competition. Rajput responded by asking who the student was really competing with. He argued that pressure begins when students compare their own journey to someone else's. Rajput suggested the only meaningful comparison is with one’s past self. He said asking “Am I better today than I was yesterday?” can turn competition from fear into motivation. The post reflects a familiar stress in Indian academic environments where cut-offs and ranks dominate. Rajput emphasised that competition itself is not the problem, but the perspective on it. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Digraj Singh Rajput’s post taps into a familiar pressure for students in India’s cut-off-driven system, where a few marks can decide college admissions. His framing aligns with a growing movement that questions the mental-health toll of hyper-competition. What matters is whether schools and parents will take this as advice or as a cue to redesign assessments. The real test will be the next board exam season: if scores still dominate headlines, the talk of self-comparison stays a classroom anecdote. ## Coverage - timesnownews.com Positions the educatoru2019s advice as positive and problem-solving, with no critique of systemic pressures This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Digraj Singh Rajput, LinkedIn, students Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/who-are-you-competing-with-digraj-singh-rajputs-advice-to-students/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/who-are-you-competing-with-digraj-singh-rajputs-advice-to-students/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/