Hablando de los números que te definen (como en un promedio), esto de David Foster Wallace en Infinite Jest (Hal Incandenza, cuarto lugar nacional en tennis a los 17 años):

Here’s how to read the monthly E.T.A. and U.S.T.A. and O.N.A.N.T.A. rankings the way Himself read scholars’ reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas. Learn to care and not to care. They mean the rankings to help you determine where you are, not who you are. Memorize your monthly rankings, and forget them. Here is how: never tell anyone where you are.