The idea of someone being the best at anything is for me an impossibility. As I had mentioned before, the human person is, for me a paradox of sorts, a finite being with infinite possibilities.
Now then, if one were to think about it, in that description of the human person, the idea of being best limits that infinitude. In which case, the paradox is lost. If a person is the best at something, it would mean that he has attained the highest point of a certain skill. In such case then, it would be clear to see that there was a limit. However, infinity is connected with the idea of boundlessness, and the setting of limits are as much the setting of bounds. This then contradicts the idea of infinite possibilities.
Following, then, the description of the human person set up above, we find that his possibilities should be boundless as s/he is one with infinite possibilities. And as a being with infinite possibilities, there would be no highest point.
True, there are physical limitations, but the possibilities exist to augment the person's capabilities to overcome or dodge those limitations. In such case, the individual has the capability to continually become better.
Better. Never best.
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