Forwarding: how did we slide to mediocre

There is a test: a long-distance runner participates in a five-person group competition. The coach told him that, as far as I know, the other four are not as powerful as you. As a result, the athlete easily won the first place. Later, the coach asked him to participate in another 10-person group competition. The coach showed him the average score of others. He found that others' scores were not as good as his own, he ran the first place easily. Later, the athlete participated in a group of 20 members. The coach said that if you defeat one of them, you will win. As a result, he followed the coach and won the first place in the final sprint.

Later, I changed a place. The coach did not communicate with other athletes before the competition. In the five-member group competition, he barely took the first place. Later, in the 10-member group competition, he slipped to 2nd. In the 20-member group competition, he takes only 5th people.

The actual situation is that other participating athletes in each group are at the same level as those of the first time.

This reminds me of the story of going to school.

When I was in elementary school, I was a leader in the class and felt that I was not the first. After being promoted to junior high school, I felt that it was good to have the first 10 students. Once I got the first 10 students, I was complacent. After high school, the goal is lower. Even if the exam is slightly different, you will comfort yourself: It's good to have so many experts. In this way, we step by step from excellence to mediocrity.

Yes, no one will ever tell us the strength and ability of our competitors. As a result, as we face more and more people around us, we begin to feel overwhelmed, or take the initiative to "arrange" ourselves to a lower position. This may be the way forward for many people.

A well-known entrepreneur once said that his self-sufficiency is always lasting for a talented person. Yes. If a person lacks self-confidence in himself, no matter how many talents he has, he will not give full play to himself. Even if I used to be a piece of gold and lack of self-confidence, I would fade into a piece of iron, and even be willing to fall into a grain of sand, which will be drowned in the sand for a long time without being discovered by outsiders.

We were excellent. However, we lack self-confidence. We pull us down from the excellent heights step by step and continue to pull us down to the mediocre position. Mediocrity is a disaster in life and a tragedy in life.

However, in more cases, we have directed this disaster and tragedy for ourselves.