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That was a fun story and congrats on winning that competition! From the judges: >Our lives, especially in our twenties, feels like a competition. From school,
by mahathu 3y ago
That was a fun story and congrats on winning that competition!
From the judges:
>Our lives, especially in our twenties, feels like a competition. From school, to university, to getting a job and progressing through our careers – it’s a never ending competition.
Is that really how people feel? The last time I felt remotely similar was in high school during the university entry exams, but even then, it didn't feel much like a competition, more like a group of kids bonding over going through a stressful time together. Then uni was just socializing, taking fun (and some not so fun) classes and enjoying life without any real responsibilities outside of class and mundane student jobs. I know that my friends felt the same. Where is this competition taking place that the author says applies to everyone?
- hgsgm 3y agoUkraine. How rich was the country you grew up in?
- IggleSniggle 3y agoYeah I've never experienced that either. But I have a son now who sees everything as a competition. I think it's just a personality trait, and that people who have it see others as competing even when others are not... mostly because they are so deep in the competition mindset that they can't believe it's any other way.
- mst 3y agoThe human brain is generally wired to see others as more similar to ourselves than they actually are, hence Typical Mind Fallacy being a thing. Remembering that most of the rest of our cognitive processes are running on top of a hyperactive pattern matcher with a tendency to overfit (and to overestimate the comprehensiveness of the training data it's ingested to date) allows one to derive an appropriate lack of surprise at a lot of human behaviours from first principles. (or at least it seems to work out well for me, it is of course entirely possible that I'm overestimating how well it would work for any given other person for pretty much the reasons I just outlined above)