Howdy folks 🤠 how was your day? I didn't publish an article yesterday because I didn't really have a topic to write on and instead of racking my brain to come up with something to write, I just said; "f*ck it, I will just take the day off".
I went off to play a mobile game (call of duty) and while playing, a friend of mine messaged me on whatsapp that he is watching my gameplay (you can spectate a friend's gameplay on call of duty, as long as the person turned on that feature) and he said I was playing against bots, which means not real players.
Then he went ahead to show me videos of him playing against real hardcore players, and I was impressed with the way he played. I could tell that he is very much better than me, he has years of experience while I have been playing for just a few months.
He started listing all his achievements and telling me how he fought hard (or played hard 😆) to get to where he is now. Then he suggested we played together as a team, and I agreed. He started a game and invited me, as usual a team is made up of 4 players so there were 2 other random players on my team.
Now the way the game works is that everyone is dropped on an island and we all go around gathering weapons and supplies, then we try to kill each other, the last team standing wins the game. So the game began and my team started gathering supplies, but suddenly my friend was gunned down 😀 I mean the same friend that was bragging earlier that he is a god 😂.
When I saw what happened, I suddenly thought; "if my friend that is so good at this turned out to be the first player that was killed, what chance do I even have?". Within seconds of processing that thought, I was killed as well by the same player, and he proceeded to wipe out the rest of the team.
I went back to Whatsapp to chat with him and he was already laughing at how we were wiped out within the first few minutes of the game. One thing I observed was that he didn't give silly excuses for his failure, something like; "my internet was bad", or "I didn't know someone was there", he owned up to the fact that there are people better than him.
The thing is, my friend is in a higher rank than me (he is in the highest rank in the game), which means he is going to be fighting against players in the same rank, and those guys are no joke. So certainly, he is going to come across people that are even more deadly than him 😆.
This principle also applies in our everyday life, there's always going to be someone much better, richer, more beautiful, more intelligent, smarter, more creative, more skilled than us. Take for instance the world's richest men, for some years it was Bill Gates that was at the top of the table (he was at the top for over 24 years!), then later it was Jeff Bezos, and right now it's Elon Musk. Will there be anyone that will surpass Elon Musk on that table? Your guess is as good as mine 😉
Albert Einstein has always been thought of as the person with the highest possible IQ (said to be between 160 and 190), he is a true genius but someone else now holds the record for having the highest recorded IQ: Ainan Celeste Cawley, with an IQ of 263! 😲 Someone else might be able to break that record in the future.
This reminds me of when I was in high school, for about four years I was the top student in my class and nobody contested that position, until one day a new student arrived and I got booted into the second position by him but that didn't make me angry or jealous, I got close to him and we became very good friends.
And that brings me to the problem associated with the topic for this article; a lot of people react negatively when they meet someone better than them. The usual reaction most people exhibit in situations such as these is that they become toxic, jealous, and angry. Some will even go as far as trying to bring down the other person, they see them as a competition.
Healthy competition isn't bad and it even helps a person to become better, but doing it in a way that looks like a do-or-die affair isn't the answer. Instead of trying to bring down your "opponent", why not become humble enough to learn from them and see how you can improve?
That's what I usually do when I see someone better, I ask questions or simply watch how they do things so that I can improve my skills and abilities. I don't do it so I can beat the person and have a feeling that I have triumphed over them, I do it so I can improve and become better.
That's another thing some people do; they hide under the pretense of wanting to learn from the better person so they can improve their skills, become better and rub it in the face of their mentor but they forget one very important thing: there is always going to be someone better.
Thanks for reading 💖💖💖
Friday February 18, 2022
Reminds me of when I was in high school too. As soon as I was displaced for the second position, I didn't stress my self too as I can't kill my self too. I just accepted that the guy is better than I am... There's this particular girl in class B who lost her first position to another guy too, the way she was crying ,you would think her mother just died, making the class teacher feel bad