Would you agree, not always exhorting yourself to be the best, etc.etc. in life?

Here is a different take on life and life's achievements:
The solution is not about lowering standards, he says. It’s about adjusting the way we think. “High standards are very different from wanting or expecting the best all the time,” he says.

And the same is true for how we should think about our personal accomplishments. “Having very high standards of achievement – working hard, persevering, not being satisfied with what is merely acceptable – no doubt spurs people to achieve things that they would otherwise not achieve,” Prof. Schwartz says. “But there’s a crucial difference between shooting for perfection, realizing you can’t achieve it and yet still being satisfied with your accomplishments and shooting for perfection, thinking you can and should achieve it and thereby living a life of misery and perpetual disappointment.”
I can't see that type of laid back approach could be for everything in one's life -but for me, it's only pushing the best of myself only for certain areas of my life.

The rest I just let others do their thing.
I just go bike and go home.