Theres a doctor who wrote about the effect of competition on his life.He went to medical college in Switzerland and there was a fairly large number of students at that school. He said some of the students went into shock when they realized there were no grades, no awards, no Deans list, no first or second in the class at the school. You either passed or you didn’t.
He said “Some of us just couldn’t take it. We became almost paranoid. We thought there must be some kind of trick here. So some of them went to another school. Those that survived suddenly discovered a strange thing they had never noticed in other universities: Students, brilliant ones, helping others pass, sharing notes.
His own son now goes to medical school, and he tells him that, in the lab, people often tamper with the microscope so that it’ll take the next student three to four minutes to readjust it. Competition.!
They have to succeed, they have to be perfect.
And he tells a beautiful story that could well serve as a parable.
In this little town, people gathered in the evenings to make music, They had a saxophonist, a drummer, a violinist, a guitarist, mostly old people. They got together for the company and for the sheer joy of making music, though they did’nt do it very well.
So they enjoyed thenselves, had a great time, until one day they decided to get a conductor who had a lot of ambition and drive.
The new conductor told them: ‘Hey folks, we must have a concert: we have to prepare a concert for the town’.
Then he gradually got rid of some people who didn’t play too well, hired a few professionals got an orchestra into shape, and they got their names in the newspapers and magazines. Was’nt that wonderful?
So they decided to move to the big city and play there. But some of the old people had tears in their eyes, they said: ‘It was so wonderful in the old days when we did things badly and still enjoyed them, and ourselves’.
So cruelty came into their lives and best part is nobody recognized it as cruelty.!
Say your thing and get out of here. And if people profit, that’s
fine, and if they don’t, too bad.
fine, and if they don’t, too bad.
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