※Original blog was written in Japanese. I translated into English with Google translate.
I went to a kind of high-leveled school when I was a junior-high school, and looking back at that time, the most noticeable thing was that I quickly realized that there were many people who were smarter than myself.
In elementary school, I was able to study relatively better than my friends, so once I left original place, I found a new community was totally different from the place where I was.
But even though it was a high-leveled school, it was not a top class school, and I belonged to an average class in that school, so with some hard work I managed to get results.
It might have been just right for me to have a well-balanced environment where I could manage myself.
And at that time, because I realized that there were many people who were smarter than I was at that time, I still feel motivated to study something everyday and feel like I want to grow up.
On the other hand, this is also possible. There was an acquaintance at college who was very smart. He was much higher-leveled school whwre a lot of people who were smarter than him even if he was much smarter than me. When he told me that he had given up becoming scholar because he noticed every person around him was more superior to him.Still, the acquaintance remains excellent, and in fact, in college, even though I was desperate to take credit, he earned a good reputation without any difficulty.
But what if the acquaintance remained a frog in the well? Certainly, it may only be a little late for him to find someone to be better than yourself, but with steady growth, when he will realize, he may be able to improve himself to be the top class. Of course, you'll know that even if you're in the well, someone is better than yourself. However,the meaning is completely different between an environment where there are tremendously good people in the close range of your community and not.
Needless to say, people who succeed in something are not always the top in every community, and many people say that they have succeeded even though they have broken their hearts but have continued to make effort. However, it is highly possible that there are no people who are environmentally friendly enough to break your heart, and that you are confident in what you are good at and have continued to study.
I mean, no matter how good you are, if you couldn't get the result in the “well” (though it might be the ocean for others), the person's self-affirmation will not increase possibly.
In order to improve some abilities, you do not care about the surroundings and try to proceed at your own pace, but it is difficult to do it if you are litarally sorrounded by excellent people .
That's exactly what you can do with the chicken mouth, but also with the cow.
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