..and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that arekilled first.
This sentence has to be judged not by what it says literally but by the wealth of knowledge that it camouflages.
The intended audience for this sentence was certainly not a herd of buffaloes, I hope.
It is applicable to each and every one of us and everything we do in our daily life.
When it comes to nature, it consistently follows the principle of Survival of the fittest, automatically eliminating the slowest/least fit in the herd. This is good news for the herd because the general health and speed of the heard is maintained and at times improved.
Much the same way, our performance is restricted to the average capability of our peer group. You can see it happen in all walks of life. An average student performing averagely in an average school, when put in a very competitive school either manages to rise to the occasion or loses out badly to the competition.
The best example I could take is the performance of the Indian Cricket team. How could a team that has lost to a young inexperienced team like Bangladesh beat teams like Pakistan and Australia in their home grounds?
When we play against a superior team like Australia we automatically raise the level of our game.
It happens to each and every one of us. We restrict our performance to just what is required of us at that particular point in time.
It is important for each and every one of us to realize that we are capable of a lot more and must constantly yearn to consistently extract that level of performance from ourselves.
Here is to a world of continuous improvement, where, as I see it, there is no limit to improving ourselves. Here is to an extremely competitive human race…
